<p>I'm am applying to Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering and hoping to study biomedical engineering. I heard about the freshman seminars at the school of arts and sciences and they sound really interesting. Can engineering students take freshman seminars or are they only open to weinberg students?</p>
<p>S is in engg and ISP and he took seminar in his freshman year.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure the Weinberg seminars are only open to Weinberg students.
Also, there are so many freshman-year requirements for engineers that I’d imagine it would be very difficult to fit in a seminar.</p>
<p>hahahaha trust me when you get there you def will not want to take a freshmen seminar if you don’t have to. its many people’s least favorite class. The topics always do sound interesting but somehow they make the classes horrible</p>
<p>Weinberg uses the freshman seminar for advising. Your fall quarter seminar professor is your freshman advisor. Given that, I wouldn’t be surprised if enrollment was limited to WCAS students (although I don’t know for sure that it is).</p>
<p>NorthwesternDad – was your S being advised through WCAS at the time? I thought McCormick/ISP students went with McCormick degree requirements.</p>
<p>My S is enjoying his first seminar, but will admit that it’s a lot of work.</p>
<p>S has two advisors, one from ISP and the other from Engg. Have to clarify with him.</p>
<p>Each seminar is structured roughly the same way: 2-3 shorter papers then a longer (10-12 pg) final paper. The conversations are more relaxed and very interesting. That said, those papers can get in the way of EA, math, physics/chem, DTC, or anything that engineers require in the first year. If you really want, you could jump into one winter or spring quarter.</p>