<p>Well, I am in a bad situation to say the least. My major is chemical engineering to say the least, but I'm indifferent on any kind of major in engineering. I was attending a community college here in Texas for the past year because I was given really low financial aid right out of high school because my SAT scores were bad despite almost impeccable high school grades and credentials. (Whatever, I don't care anymore)</p>
<p>I have plans of transferring this fall, but I'm not sure those are going to work out. I've begun to rethink my college major. The primary reason is because I don't have a lot of money to work with and I am on a time budget for my college education for that very reason. I REALLY want to get a degree in chemical engineering, but I would have to spend another four years in my transfer university of choice because I haven't taken college level chemistry. I will be taking the CLEP exam in a few weeks, but I don't even know if I'll pass it. (I haven't had chemistry since high school and the clep review guide is a lot of stuff I don't know how to do but am learning how to do them progressively these past few and upcoming weeks)</p>
<p>If I end up transferring this fall, I would be shelling out $20,000/yr for 4 years and graduate at the age of 22 (probably with lots of debt too!). I am kind of wary of staying in college for that long, which is why I decided to finish my freshman year in high school.</p>
<p>Now... I could major in mechanical/petroleum engineering at my hometown's university and graduate in just two or three years DEBT-FREE. That sounds VERY enticing, but it's not what I truly want to do and it's not the degree I want. It's just enticing because I would be the first in my immediate family to graduate with a bachelor's degree and would just honestly like to be done with college in general. I live in a terrible town and my backup university for all this is here in this terrible town... </p>
<p>From your standpoint, what would you advise for me to do? Does the overall engineering degree matter in the end? Believe it or not, I've got aspirations for a graduate degree, which I could spend some more time figuring out which engineering program I would like to do overall, but is it even remotely possible to painlessly go from B.S.Eng in Mechanical to M.S.Eng in Chemical?</p>
<p>Thanks for any insight anyone can give.</p>