I’ll be entering JHU’s Krieger School of Arts & Sciences as an incoming freshman in fall 2015. However, I’ve recently changed my mind and decided that I want to pursue a career in finance, so I want to transfer into the Whiting School of Engineering. How difficult is it to internal transfer from Arts & Sciences to Engineering? What does the process involve and when am I allowed to transfer? (I have a friend who goes to a different college and she was allowed to transfer before the start of her freshman year.)
Also, I was thinking of majoring in applied mathematics and statistics and minoring in the financial economics major. Would that work towards a career in finance? Are JHU students considered very desirable in the finance field?
(Thanks in advance!)
It’s not difficult at all. I’m not sure how to do it at your specific point in time, but if you’ve been assigned an academic advisor, I’d start with emailing him / her and getting further directions. Alternatively, you could email the Office of Academic Affairs for WSE (wseadvising@jhu.edu) or a specific person in the office (http://engineering.jhu.edu/academics/wse-academic-advising/)–Edward Scheinerman in particular is a professor in the Applied Math department. You’re officially “transferred” as soon as someone sets you up with an advisor in the AMS department; that can happen any time, but I think that during the New Student Orientation, some events related to academics are divided by school, so you should go to those instead.
I couldn’t tell you much about what people interested in finance usually major in, but I do know some people who are doing an AMS major, some-type-of-economics-or-business minor. And I don’t know how JHU students rank in comparison to others.