<p>Generally if someone can't get into engineering what would their fall back plan be?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>That is definitely the stereotype but I’m unaware of any facts supporting it. It makes sense though. A lot of people go into engineering not out of a love of engineering or science but because it pays well (compared to most bachelor’s degrees), but because they don’t really want it badly enough they aren’t willing to do all of the “weeder” math and science.</p>
<p>As mentioned, it is a stereotype. If one can do the math and science, they stick through it, otherwise, as mentioned, they pick “the next best option”, and business seems to be it.</p>
<p>Thinking back on the people I knew that switched out of engineering one went to math and all the others went into business.</p>
<p>I’d say it’s pretty true.</p>
<p>I honestly didnt see a whole lot of this at Texas A&M. You needed a pretty good GPA to transfer into business, and if you flunked an engineering class, your GPA was probably too low to transfer. Most people that couldnt hack engineering would go into industrial distribution, or just study one of the easier natural science or liberal arts.</p>
<p>And students that want to be Doctors but flunk Orgo become lawyers…</p>
<p>I’m in engineering so I can get a business job. Role reversal.</p>
<p>That’s the joke. I didn’t notice it happening any more often than ex-engineers transferring to any other math/sciencey type of major.</p>
<p>I don’t know; they transfer to one of those other majors–the ones defined by bleak career prospects and no real future.</p>
<p>I think its pretty true. At my school there’s this saying: “BME stands for Business Major Eventually”</p>
<p>Also, alot of ex-engineers ive seen have gone into something easier like Sociology or Psychology where its not as intense and you can “still have a life”</p>