Hello guys, I just got accepted to UT Austin for Fall 2015, but I did not get into the major that I’ve selected, engineering. I have to pick another major or deny the offer, and the only school that is available from the selection is Liberal Arts. Should I pick Liberal Arts (undeclared), then internally transfer to Cockrell School of Engineering for Fall 2016 or deny the offer. Suggestions are much appreciated, Thanks!
Up to you. How badly to you want to go to UT? Where were you going to go before they notified you? Internal transfer into Cockrell is hard but not impossible. Be prepared to study very hard this year and get a very high GPA. If you can’t get into Cocrell, what would your back up major be?
I’ve always wanted to go to UT ever since I was in high school. My GPA right now is a 3.85 with only 1 B in math/science classes. My first and second choices were Petroleum Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. I don’t really know what my back up major would be, but I do have a certificate as a Biomedical Equipment Technician from the US Army.
http://www.engr.utexas.edu/undergraduate/admissions/changeofmajor
Here are the internal transfer requirements and typical GPAs. Looks like you’d want to shoot for a 3.4 or 3,6 in your UT coursework for those majors. I assume your GPA is from another university so you know how hard you will need to work to get the target GPA and it looks like you can do it.
A plan B might include going into one of the other colleges (communications, natural sciences, etc.) if you don’t see a liberal arts degree you can live with. I have said this in another thread- there are other schools that will straight up put you in your major of choice and there is a lot to be said for that. If your dream is truly UT, it is entirely possible to transfer into Cockrell but it will take attention to the requirements I linked to and hard work.
Agreeing with a previous poster, it’s likely the math or physics departments might have what you wantl. Likewise, UT appears to offer a BA in Computer Science as well so it looks like you’d have access to that as well.
BTW: I have no idea how competitive the above majors are. At the University of Washington, kids who didn’t get into the CS department often ended up in the Applied Computation and Math area of the math department or the Information School doing human factors. It’s my understanding that the competitiveness for those areas is way up so they’re not a default plan B anymore.
The only department that is up for grabs is liberal arts, and I feel like that has nothing to do with the math/science field. UT usually gives out the result really late for engineering transfers so I don’t have much choice here.
What other schools did you get accepted to?
what major in engineering do you want to do?
mechanical or chemical(petroleum)