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<p>^nice. this is what happens when people hate on Clemson haha</p>
<p>@ucbalumnus. Yeah, I would say strength of other possible majors or even overall strength. I’m pretty positive I would like engineering (general, or possibly one of these: aerospace/aeronautical, industrial, or possibly environmental), but I have other interests as well that I’m afraid I might have to ignore if I pursue engineering.
It sounded like I would get a Harvey Mudd diploma, which might solve that problem. But I will look into it.</p>
<p>@beantowngirl - I thought my math scores (even if I raise my Math II score the 2nd time around) would be low for the likes of USC, Rice, Stanford.</p>
<p>"@pierre Yeah I see what you mean… but if I switch out of engineering I would still want good, quality options."</p>
<p>I think that’s a good reason to look at some larger schools if you are undecided about what you want to do for college. Employers would definitely want you to have an ABET accredited degree to be considered for employment. Many of the really smaller schools for engineering such as Harvey Mudd are mostly engineering centered and you’d probably have to transfer if you decided you wanted to study, say Finance. On the other hand, you have a larger school that has the resources to have a solid engineering program that also fields many strong departments as well. Probably way too big for you but you wouldn’t have to transfer from say a school like Penn State. That’s the strength of a large school as opposed to a small school. Are classes going to be bigger? Yes. Are you going to have to take more effort to get connected with your professors? Yes. You just have to find a good balance between what you want from a small school and the fact that you really don’t know what you want to do yet am interested in engineering.</p>
<p>Just my two cents</p>
<p>(By the way, engineering is tough. There’s no question about it - it takes hours out of your week just to study and master the material. While the English majors are partying downtown Thursday night, you’ll be in the library maybe through Saturday. So I would temper expectations about how much you can accomplish in terms of classes outside of your major if you do go with engineering)</p>
<p>It looks like the only access to engineering at CMC involves the 3+2 programs with dual majors in economics and engineering or management and engineering.</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://www.jsd.claremont.edu/majors/ee.asp]Keck”>http://www.jsd.claremont.edu/majors/ee.asp]Keck</a> Science :: Academics : Economics and Engineering Major<a href=“with%20HMC%20as%20the%20%222%22%20school”>/url</a>
[url=<a href=“http://www.jsd.claremont.edu/majors/managementengineering.asp]Keck”>http://www.jsd.claremont.edu/majors/managementengineering.asp]Keck</a> Science :: Academics : Management Engineering<a href=“with%20other%20schools%20as%20the%20%222%22%20schools”>/url</a></p>
<p>“So I would temper expectations about how much you can accomplish in terms of classes outside of your major if you do go with engineering”</p>
<p>In my “Why ___” essays, I planned on talking about how I will get involved in clubs and activities on campus, and how I hope to minor in Art/language etc. etc. Does that not sound realistic for a prospective engineer? Are you saying I won’t really have time to get involved or to explore other non-engineering programs?</p>
<p>It’s all a matter of effective time management. You can be involved in clubs and activities, just don’t spend a lot of time goofing off or partying too hard! The colleges really want engineering students who will be involved in campus life. My son and his friends are very involved in organizations at his school.
Many engineers minor in another subject, double-majoring is more difficult but do-able if there is a significant overlap between the two majors.</p>
<p>I’m not saying that you can’t be involved in other activities or take other classes as well but I’m just saying that it will be difficult at times. Like BeanTownGirl says, it’s all about time management and yep it will be difficult to double major in engineering (a minor might be possible). For engineering, I’d say that for every hour you spend in class, you should probably spend 3 hours studying the material/doing homework/writing lab reports</p>
<p>The other point about double-majors is you need to decide very early on that you want to do it and meet with your academic advisor to plot out exactly how to make it work so that it doesn’t take longer than 4 years. If it is something you really want to do, you can do it :-)</p>