<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I'm going to be a frosh next year at UT and was just wondering how easy it is to transfer from CNS to engineering. I assume that I'll need to have a good GPA, but is there anything else I need?</p>
<p>Not really</p>
<p>I don't mean to sound obnoxious, but can you be a bit more specific? I hear that it's pretty easy to transfer into McCombs for your sophomore year, so wouldn't engineering, which is supposed to be less selective be similar, especially since I'll be coming with a science background?</p>
<p>That's false as well. It's based on your GPA. Usually a 3.7 is good enough to transfer. I was saying "not really" answering his last question--really nothing else he needs.</p>
<p>Just a high enough GPA. They don't care about the science background as far as I know--there is a difference between science and engineering. Try to look at the degree plan of the new major and base your courses for next year on that.</p>
<p>I really have no idea what the numbers are. I know McCombs usually requires a 3.7-3.8 as loneranger said, and Engineering is easier to transfer into, so I would say 3.4-3.5 should guarantee you. </p>
<p>If I were trying to transfer in, I would definitely take physics 303k(2nd sem), math 408C(1st sem), and math 408d(2nd sem). And do what loneranger said, look at the majors degree plan, and try to follow it as close as possible.</p>
<p>hmmm thanks for the info foxshox. One last question, would EE and Chem E (the ones I'm most interested in), be the hardest to transfer into? Like to transfer in, do they require a tremendously higher GPA or something?</p>
<p>Umm, I wouldn't imagine it would be THAT much harder to transfer into. I am a EE, and since the drop rate is pretty high, it shouldn't be too much different among the different engineering schools. </p>
<p>I think EE is the most problematic major to transfer into for sure. It is one of the few engineering majors that has courses for your major starting with freshman year.
Refer to these:
UT</a> ECE | 2006-2008 Electrical Engineering Curriculum
UT</a> ECE | 2006-2008 Computer Engineering Curriculum
<a href="http://www.engr.utexas.edu/che/students/undergrad/documents/06-08SAC_000.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.engr.utexas.edu/che/students/undergrad/documents/06-08SAC_000.pdf</a>
Take pretty much all the classes you can that don't have a EE or CHE prefix. </p>
<p>Though it sucks if you take Chemistry and Bio, and inevitably decide for EE, Neither chem or bio apply toward anything but elective credits, which could end up being a waste of time.</p>
<p>I've been through the internal transfer process here at UT, so I can tell you the true facts.</p>
<p>GPA is mainly what determines your acceptance. If you meet a certain GPA cutoff, you almost always will get the spot....provided the classes you took weren't blowoff.</p>
<p>As you can see, Texas Residents require 3.0 for a transfer into chemical engineering (which you said you were most interested in). Even if you don't have a 3.0, you may get "conditional acceptance". Conditional acceptance basically means that if you get a good GPA the semester you're applying, they'll let you transfer in.</p>
<p><strong><em>HOWEVER</em></strong>*</p>
<p>At summer orientation, go to the engineering transfer seminar. They'll re-evaluate your application and probably let you in (happened to me. went from liberal arts --> biomedical engineering). you save a semester this way.</p>
<p>k, thanks for the responses guys, but is it possible for me to change my major before I start college or at least during the spring semester? Also, nocturnes, in that link, what does Texas Residents mean? Since I'm OOS, does that mean I'll need the "others" GPA?</p>
<p>It may be that Texas residents get a GPA break so to speak. A bit ridiculous, but maybe they are giving people who got shafted by the top ten percent rule a second chance.</p>
<p>Pure speculation, but just a thought.</p>
<p>hook 'em, you need 30 hours to transfer internally for the most part. You can't change at orientation or for spring semester.</p>
<p>foxshox, you are absolutely right. If you aren't a Texas resident, they really don't care as much about you (as it rightly should be), so you have to work even harder to get places at UT.</p>
<p>sorry guys, I know I said last question last time, but I swear this will be the last question lol:</p>
<p>Let's say that I get bad grades freshman year for whatever reason and can't transfer into chemical engineering, or I just want to do business. Is it possible to do a double major in McCombs and CNS in some business field and Biology?</p>
<p>Nah, I don't think its possible to double major a McCombs major, and a non-McCombs major. Anyways, how would you get into McCombs, if you couldn't get into CHE.</p>
<p>Yes, I think that if you are a bio major in CNS, your only "business" option is the Business Foundations minor. People have posted here that this minor does not include the type of serious business training the McCombs kids are getting - that not only are there fewer classes (of course - it is a minor) but that the courses are watered down.</p>
<p>I transferred from undeclared into Chemical Engineering from Summer Orientation last year. Just go to the transfer session. They pretty much just looked at my SAT scores. 1400 M+V for BME and Chem E, and I think it was 1300 for EE. It may be different this year. And I know a few of my Chem E friends are from out of state, and they're Honors students...</p>