<p>I am interested in transferring from HBHS in the College of Human Ecology to PAM before the school year starts. As much as I enjoy science, I plan on having a career in consumerism, a concentration offered by the PAM major. It may be last minute, but how would I go about changing this before/during freshman orientation. Thank you. </p>
<p>17 more days!!!!! yay.</p>
<p>Hey,
Nice to see you're excited for school <=)
Unfortunately you might not be able to transfer before orientation, especially if you're a freshman (?). As a freshman seeking to transfer out of the college into which you were accepted, you'd have to go through the Internal Transfer Division which is really not a big deal but they make you wait until you're sophomore year. I just did this from ENG to A&S =)</p>
<p>If you're just going to change b/w majors, I don't think it's a big deal. I don't think you even have to declare a major till your sophomore year.</p>
<p>HBHS is a select program, and I know you have to follow a certain sequence of classes. You won't have to do Internal Transfer Division because you'll be transferring within the same school. You will, however, probably need to work out some approvals within the HBHS/PAM departments, and it probably won't be 'official' until second semester. I don't think there's much you can do before you get to campus (short of perhaps writing the chair of the HBHS department to ask for advice?), but once you arrive and meet your advisor, etc, you can discuss your options. Besides, maybe you still want to be in HBHS and just take all of the PAM classes about consumerism so that you can have the best of both worlds. I would definitely recommend, though, taking a PAM class or two first semester to make sure it's a major you want; you might take a class and realize it isn't for you, and thus staying in HBHS is the better idea. Hope this helps :)</p>
<p>The thing is that I wanted to initially do Human Biology, Health and Society because it already has almost all the pre-med requirements built into the curriculum, so it would be killing 2 birds with one stone. But since the end of school, when I finished my volunteering at a hospital, I have decided that I don't want to be a Doctor anymore.</p>