<p>The biggest problem with in-house transfer is not the ease of it because it is quite easy. It is usually the following:</p>
<p>1) You arrive in your college, and your frosh/soph yr are usually dedicated to doing distribution requirements along with your major reqs. That means if you enter CALS, even in AEM, you'll most likely take classes like animal science/bio/chem or communication (remember, they graduate with a BS, so you will be required to take science classes frosh/soph yr). After a year or so and you think you want to transfer to another college, you are behind in distribution reqs because every college is different. In fact, CAS is especially hard to transfer into only because they require 100 of the 120 credits to be in their college, so you might be spending your last few semesters taking CAS classes you don't particularly enjoy for their long list of reqs and in-college credits. I'm not saying it isn't doable, cuz more than a handful of people do it each semester, but it's not a walk in the park. </p>
<p>2) many of the schools will not let you start the transfer process until after your freshmen year, so you might not be able to transfer until sophmore year.</p>
<p>FYI, I was in CAS for psych until I transferred to HumEc for HD. This was possible (and the other way around) because many of the classes I took in Psych were cross-listed in HD, so when I transferred, I was able to get those courses changed from Psych to HD. I don't think you can do that with AEM, ILR, or Econ since those courses in those majors are geared for that major.</p>
<p>P.S. who knows what's going to change with internal transfer now that people can pick two colleges. They might restrict it or make it harder so that people don't attend their second pick college only to transfer a year a later.</p>