<p>even if it's in another college at Berkley?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>i have a question about that as well. i got into the college of engineering and i originally applied for mechanical engineering except now i want BioEngineering. how difficult would it be to switch majors within engineering considering BioE is impacted</p>
<p>haha well i was accepted bioengineering and i'm considering switching to some other biology major. maybe you can take my spot :)</p>
<p>awesome now we just have to call the admissions office at exactly the same time and tell them we're switching. haha like that would ever work. so you're planning on switching out of engineering and go into L&S?</p>
<p>i'm thinking about it, but i'm not exactly sure. i don't want to give up my spot until i've completely made up my mind. my cousin went to cal and it wasn't very easy for her to switch majors...</p>
<p>It depends. IF you are switching majors within the same college (say, in L&S you go from astrophysics to...art history) it is pretty easy. It is harder when you are switching form one college to another (say L and S to engineering). Usually you can do it, so don't stress too much over it.</p>
<p>ya i heard it was tough to switch between colleges. but i figure that it'll be easier to switch from engineering to L&S rather than L&S to engineering... but i really have no idea haha.</p>
<p>Yea, generally going from engineering to LandS will be easier then the other way around. </p>
<p>Why? Because when you apply to LandS you are automatically listed as "undeclared" but when you apply to engineering that is you designated major (I'm pretty sure).</p>
<p>so can i try to switch my major before the fall? or do i have to wait? and thanks for your help btw...</p>
<p>hmm, I'm not sure about that one. first, I would wait a couple weeks so that a) you think it thru and decide if you wanna switch and b)if you do wanna switch, Berkeley operators won't be as busy. I would give them a call and ask if you can switch before the fall. You can certainly apply to switch once the fall has started.</p>
<p>ya i'm not going to do it before i completely make up my mind. i tried to call today just to see if it was possible and they were closed. so i'll try again sometime next week.</p>
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<p>No, please stop. You're fine where you are. <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=222845%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=222845</a></p>
<p>Now that Stanley Hall is built and theyve redesigned the curriculum (provided you dont foolishly pick the "premedical" track), it isn't as bad, but still...</p>
<p>wow. where has this bitterness about the bioE major come from. is it a good path if im trying to do pre-med?</p>
<p>it's a good path only if youre certain that youre going to med school and want to limit yourself entirely to engineering majors (which you really dont need to do). at the upper division level, if you limit your selection of classes to the bioe dept, then the curves are not brutal at all (compared to chemE) - everyone in the class either gets an a or a b. but theyve packed way too much into your first two years for comfort - 16 units in the first semester, 18 (!) in the second when you should really be taking it easy with fewer units and maybe a freshman seminar or two. and theyre not kind with the grading in physics 7a-b and math 53/54 (which you dont need as an ordinary premed).</p>
<p>but i dont think ME will be any easier since there is less overlap. ME is better if you want to become a real engineer.</p>
<p>im a bit naive about engineers period. where do they generally get jobs? what do they do? how is the pay? i just chose engineering because I have a strong math/science background</p>
<p>there's industry and there's academia. trying to get work as an engineer w/o a PhD means youre limited to industry, ie, companies that make stuff.</p>
<p>The Career Center publishes starting salaries for new grads (the third that bothers to fill out the survey) for different majors here: <a href="http://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Major.stm%5B/url%5D">http://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Major.stm</a></p>
<p>Here's the major/median/average salary date for Fall 2005/Spring 2006 grads:
EECS $66,000 $67,570
Materials Science & Engr $60,500 $60,169
Mechanical Engineering $59,000 $57,522
IEOR $58,000 $58,719
Engineering Science $58,000 $58,024
Chemical Engineering $56,431 $55,969
Civil Engineering $56,000 $57,153
Bioengineering $41,600 $44,060 </p>
<p>Non-engineering majors with comparable numbers:
Computer Science $75,000 $76,929
Applied Mathematics $58,000 $58,283
Cognitive Science $57,000 $54,954
Business Administration $55,000 $60,664
Economics $53,000 $54,463
Statistics $52,000 $51,100
Mathematics $46,280 $60,840 </p>
<p>As you can see, bioengineering is down there, below Legal Studies and above Poli Sci (median data) and below Poli Sci and above PEIS (mean data), and below all the other engineering majors (nukies excepted).</p>
<p>The pay varies. Big companies usually pay more, but this is not clear cut. Microsoft pays entry level BS holders $86000 (my friend got an offer) but you need to have the grades/research experience to get there.</p>
<p>If youre unsure on what to do, the career center offers this advice: <a href="http://career.berkeley.edu/Article/050211a-jw.stm%5B/url%5D">http://career.berkeley.edu/Article/050211a-jw.stm</a></p>