<p>I've learned that different Universities have a list of colleges that you can apply to. Like Cornell has the School of Engineering, the School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Architecture....</p>
<p>I have no idea what i want to study. I'm more of a math and science person. I took physics this year and i hated it. Should i then apply to the Regular Arts and sciences? To the Engineering School?????</p>
<p>HELP!!!!!....And what if i do get into the arts and sciences school, but then i change my mind and do want to become a engineer>???????</p>
<p>Why would you want to become an engineer if you hate physics? Maybe you just need to take a couple of physics courses beyond the course(s) offered in your high school to stroke your interest in it - but if you really loathe physics, you're going to have a tough 4 years at any engineering school.</p>
<p>What colleges are you talking about? Some universities have specific colleges that you apply to (Cornell or UMich Ann Arbor, for example) while others don't. At some places it's easy to transfer schools internally while at other places it isn't.</p>
<p>Here's the problem: it sounds like you're not enamored of architecture enough to be ready to commit you college education solely to an architecture program. I would suggest applying/attending a general university or college (some of the small LACs have engineering), talking a balanced courseload, and if you decide engineering is what you are about, either xfer into that program, take classes in it and then go to grad school for it. If you are totally uninterested in the humanities and know hands down that what you want is a math/science education, you should look at "technical" schools such as MIT, RIT, RPI, WPI...</p>
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<p>Agree with this, it really depends on the school, so you need to go the websites of schools you're interested in and see what their policies are. Engineering and 5-yr Arch programs are two that frequently require you to apply as a Freshman. </p>
<p>And yes, you are right that this is often a difficult decision to make at a point in time when you may want to be trying various new fields to see what you're interested in studying.</p>
<p>I've actually posed this question to different admissions people several times, as I'm deciding between an applied math major and an engineering major, which at several universities lie in different schools. The most common answer I've received it that it's usually easier to transfer from an engineering program into the college of arts and sciences because of the class requirements. I mean, worst comes to worst, you can use the courses that you've already taken in the engineering core as your "quantitative reasoning" (or whatever) courses in the college of arts and sciences. They've told many stories about people transferring into engineering who've needed to take an extra year to graduate.</p>