<p>If I did not make it to computer engineering, will CMU allow me to select another major at the university?</p>
<p>When you apply, I believe you can select a few schools/programs (and assign a ranking based on which you’d prefer most). If you only selected ECE (Electrical and Computer Engineering), then I don’t believe it’s possible to be considered for another major. </p>
<p>Personally, I applied to SCS (for CS) and CIT (for ECE), in that order of ranking. I believe CIT is technically ‘easier’ to get into than SCS, though I’m not positive on that.</p>
<p>Not unless you listed another major on your application… I think.</p>
<p>My understanding from their presentation I went to is that each college there decides individually. You can get Rejected from the SCS one but still accepted at the HSS. I do believe you can transfer between them freely once you are there, though I’m not entirely sure on that. However, if you only applied to the SCS college and got rejected, I don’t think you can get in on a different one without having applied to it as well.</p>
<p>Heh, all of our posts are at the same time, 5:55PM :)</p>
<p>@DreadingDecs - that’s actually interesting. So if I’m admitted into CIT, I could transfer into SCS? Would I have to wait a year to transfer, or could I transfer before even starting?</p>
<p>On their website:
Can I change majors between colleges?</p>
<p>In general, changing majors depends on two factors:</p>
<pre><code>* the student’s academic performance in her/his declared major
- the space available in the department to which she/he wishes to transfer
</code></pre>
<p>A number of students switch between Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT) and Mellon College of Science (MCS) at the end of their freshman year, for example. Students wishing to transfer into College of Fine Arts (CFA) must go through the admission process again (we call these students Interdepartmental Transfers), and must audition or show a portfolio.</p>
<p>Depending on how related the two majors are, and the timing of the transfer (i.e., freshman or sophomore years), students may or may not have to go longer than four years. Internal Transfer into most computer related majors is “virtually” impossible. These would include Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering. The computer related majors tend to operate at or near full capacity, and thus transfer of any kind (either internal or external) is not likely.</p>
<p>So, in essence, you can in theory. However, some programs (such as CS apparently) rarely have people transfer out of them.</p>
<p>Yeah, transfer into SCS is near impossible unless you’re a chick (if you are, they’ll usually make it happen for you). I know of four SCS transfers who were women and none who were men. You also can’t transfer until you’re at the end of your freshman year to any other college other than the one you are in as a freshman.</p>
<p>If you take the same course sequence and do well, getting into SCS is not impossible. It’s about 4-5 classes before they will consider you officially - but it’s possible.</p>
<p>Take to the undergraduate advisor ASAP …Jacobo Carrasqual is very helpful</p>
<p>Say that I got rejected from computer engineering, can I still pick another department within CIT, for example chemical engineering?</p>
<p>btw: CIT is the only school I ranked (how foolish of me not to rank more to increase my chances)</p>
<p>@blademaster2</p>
<p>If you’re rejected, it wouldn’t be from a major, but from CIT as a whole - so it wouldn’t matter if the major was different. </p>
<p>At least that’s my understanding.</p>
<p>I actually had this question when I applied. I called and asked. They said you can still get into CIT if you are rejected from computer engineering, if you put that as your intended major.</p>
<p>Yay, that’s good to hear!</p>
<p>my RA told me that when she was accepted to CIT, they told her that she could not choose ECE as a major (as a freshman at least) but that she could still choose any other freshmen coursework in CIT. So I think it’s pretty for-sure that you can get into CIT but not ECE.</p>
<p>That’s not completely true. If you ask any of the first-year advisors, they will tell you that you still have a chance to get into ECE. This is assuming that you do reasonably well in the intro to ECE course (which turns potential ECE majors into other engineers :P). If you do well, I’m sure that the ECE dept will accept you, considering you’ve pretty much proven you can at least handle the rigor.</p>
<p>Did you get accepted to any of the other schools to which you applied (we all apply to three)? If so, then yes, you can still major in something else at CMU.</p>
<p>From my understanding CIT and CIT-ECE can be considered as completely different schools. If you only applied to CIT-ECE then I think you got rejected from CMU. Are you sure you didn’t apply to CIT too? I think you should call CMU and ask if you can still be considered for CIT. Tell them that you did not know a rejection to CIT-ECE means a rejection to the entire college.</p>
<p>I’m a bit confused now. My status page box looks like this:</p>
<p>Preference-College-Department-Program-Decision
1 CIT ECE Accept</p>
<p>This means acceptance into ECE, right? It doesn’t mean acceptance to CIT only, and not to the ECE… right? I would THINK that they say something else like, “Accept-CIT, Deny-ECE” if it had been otherwise. But then again, I read somewhere that you still have a chance to get in CIT if you get rejected from ECE. The question is, how do they differentiate the notifications? I really hope I got accepted into ECE.</p>
<p>As far as I know, ECE is just a department within CIT. So if you got accepted to ECE, that means you were accepted to the ECE major in CIT.</p>
<p>@soadquake981: Not quite. You still have to survive the intro to ECE weeder class in order to formally become an ECE major.</p>