<p>is it possible to internally transfer from Weinberg to Mccormick? I'm a freshman, NU 2013, and if it helps, i was hoping to transfer from economics to industrial eng/management sciences. Thanks for any advice, the NU site seems to be quiet about this haha</p>
<p>Interschool transfers are very common at Northwestern. If you’re an incoming freshman, I would call the departments quickly. The earliest you could probably do a transfer is Winter 2010.</p>
<p>Just curious, what is the motivation for the transfer? An industrial engineering degree is a lot more work than an economics degree, and I’m not sure it really “plays” better - are you just more interested in engineering?</p>
<p>Well it seemed to me to be much more applicable to a lot of different industries/companies, so yes - one reason I’m considering it is because I did think it would 'play" well. the course requirements seem to be based around advanced applied math - I’ve been good at math so I’m not too worried - but of course if you have any information on anything I’ve overlooked careerwise, I’d love to hear it.</p>
<p>IEMS is good stuff; you can easily double-major both if you are a IEMS major (McCormick allows double-counting specificly between these two majors). If you want to transfer, you should do it before the school starts (if possible); EA (engineering analysis) starts in the fall and goes in sequence. Engineering curriculum is pretty loaded however; what you’d sacrifice is the academic freedom to take variety of liberal arts courses at WCAS.</p>
<p>thanks. My impression of EA courses is that they’re mostly heavy math/phys weedout classes, so would you b e able to elaborate on them? it’s not too late to make a decision, is why I’m asking</p>
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<p>I have a few friends who were engineering majors (industrial), and while they did end up with good jobs, most of my friends who were economics majors (including myself) ended up with as good or better jobs, and our major and distribution requirements were probably significantly easier than the McCormick curriculum. </p>
<p>It’s not that I’m necessarily advocating a ‘path of least resistance,’ it’s just that McCormick has a lot of distribution requirements where you have to take courses in many different engineering departments (mechanical, etc.) to get a degree from there, and the people I know who were engineers just seemed to spend an inordinate amount of time studying, so much so that I felt it may have even detracted from their social experience. </p>
<p>So especially if you think employers will look at an engineering major more favorably than an economics major, I can tell you that almost certainly is not the case, and even if it were, I think the cost/benefit would be large. If you are truly more interested in engineering that would be a much better reason to do it.</p>
<p>Though I suppose it depends what industry you’re talking about - I’m referring to finance, mostly.</p>
<p>PS if you’re good at math, consider applying to MMSS or picking up a math minor in addition to econ if you are trying to maximize your future employment prospects.</p>
<p>I hope this helps your decision a bit, also make sure you recognize this is just one person’s opinion (mine) based on anecdotal evidence so be sure to consider advice you get from other posters, as well.</p>
<p>Good luck, I think in either case you will enjoy NU once you get here.</p>
<p>I didn’t read all the posts above, but just in case no one mentioned this, the earliest you can transfer is not Winter 2010. You can transfer before school even starts. That’s what I did (I just went the other way around 
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<p>for some odd reason I hadn’t even thought of MMSS - after reading about it I guess you’re right; that and econ would be much more aligned w/my interests (and lower stress)… Thanks everyone for your input, my decision is made</p>