<p>I an an incoming freshman
I was admitted engineering
So it says on my UW " Preengineering"</p>
<p>I havent declared my major....</p>
<p>Now I want to change to school of nursing.
If this possible? if so, how?</p>
<p>Now I am about to register for classes.
should I register for the prerequisite classes for engineering or nursing??</p>
<p>Thank you</p>
<p>Are you sure you were actually admitted into engineering? (but you said you haven’t declared your major…so maybe you weren’t?) I feel like the statements are conflicted</p>
<p>Usually it would say engineeing. The “pre” in “preengineering” means that that is currently your intended major, but you are not yet admitted into the department. (This goes for anyone who reads this and sees a "pre- before the name of their intended major. I don’t think it really “means” anything other then you putting down what your plan was when you applied to the school</p>
<p>I would contact the department to ask about whether you were admitted (and if so why does it say preengineering).</p>
<p>Regardless, you can sign up for any classes you want. In fact you will have to take plenty of classes outside of your major to satisfy the distribution credits (VLPA, IS, NW, etc). </p>
<p>If you want to go into nursing, you might look into taking prereqs for that or taking other fun courses that you will need for the distribution requirement. </p>
<p>Again though, I would talk to the engineering department about whether you are actually in or not. If so, dropping it is easy. I dropped one of my majors and just had to fill out a form and get it signed. And you have until around your junior year to be accepted into any major, so you have some time to apply for nursing.</p>
<p>Thank you for answering,
When I was accepted by UW
it says I was admitted by college of engineering.</p>
<p>But it seems that i am just in engineering department.
I think I might need to change to nursing department. so in the future I will be able to major in nursing.</p>
<p>on my UW, it says
Campus: Seattle
Class Standing: FRESHMAN
School/College: Engineering
Department: PRE ENGINEERING</p>
<p>“Pre-engineering” means that whatever your intended major was when you applied to UW was something in the College of Engineering. </p>
<p>This means that when general advisors look up your information, they will probably first suggest talking to engineering advisors about engineering classes. However, since you’re interested in nursing, take classes that are prerequisites to nursing! Being a “pre-engineering” student doesn’t restrict that.</p>
<p>Take the pre-requisites for nursing and then apply to the nursing department. I don’t think you can switch to the nursing college right now; you’d just be in Arts and Sciences as “pre-science” major. Once you’re done with prereqs, then you can apply to enter the nursing department.</p>
<p>Source: Nursing friend who started with a French major.</p>
<p>Thank you for explaining it much better than i, speedsolver</p>
<p>I think our responses compliment each other’s :)</p>