I’m currently planning on majoring chemical engineering and attending Wisconsin Madison.
Wisconsin Madison has amazing reputation for chemical engineering but I have an offer from Georgia tech to transfer after my freshman year. Except, in Georgia tech I was admitted for Chemistry and not the engineering school.
If i do attend Georgia tech next year, I am going to find a way to double major chemical engineering or minor in biomedical engineering.
Im contemplating if i should stay at Wisconsin Madison which has a great chemical engineering and chemistry program or transfer to Georgia tech and risk not being able to major in engineering since they are very strict about majors in transfer programs.
What are your thoughts? Please help me out i appreciate it greatly.
Why are you even considering Georgia Tech? Both GA Tech and Madison are great schools and academic peers. Why transfer to a school that didn’t want you as a freshman and won’t let you major in what you want?
UW is the clear decision here. UW has an amazing chem e program.
IMO, not being admitted to your major is like a soft rejection. Take GT off the table completely.
I agree. You didn’t get admitted to GT in engineering. Let it go - and go enjoy Wisconsin. You’re already in for your desired major and it’s a great school for engineering.
Agree that Wisconsin is the better option for you based on your desired major. However, if you do not like Wisconsin, then you have at least one option available.
Are you a Georgia resident and, therefore, eligible for in state tuition rate at Georgia Tech & paying the non-resident rate at Wisconsin ?
No im an international student so both of the schools will costly similarly
Then there is no reason to transfer to GATech other than your inaccurate notion that GATech is more “prestigious”.
I simply thought GATech had more reputation and that could be beneficial in some way. Wisconsin was my safety school and I think I just wanted a reason to go to a “better school”. But thanks to all of your replies I have made up my mind completely to stay committed to wisconsin and not take GATech’s offer. Thanks so much!
As a transfer, can you switch major easily? I am under the impression that GT admission is by institution and not by major. My DS still has to confirm his major now although he is admitted to BME. From the info we get, it seems like he can pick any major other than Music Tech. So he kinda have a few major change before he confirms in the next few days.
@PeaceGrass It appears that the OP has a guaranteed sophomore transfer offer (?) to GATech so conditions may be different.