<p>Absolutely no need to apply to new schools or anything.</p>
<p>I did a similar thing to your son, before school figured my most likely choice was engineering. Entered LSA at Michigan as a freshman, took the calculus, chem, physics, programming, etc. classes and transferred to engineering sophomore year. Not a big deal at all, in fact, I probably saved a couple thousand dollars by paying the lower LSA tuition.</p>
<p>Don’t even consider a gap year or something crazy like that. I’m partial to Michigan…I’m an EE student here…the engineering school is excellent and well-respected. My current roommate is an engineer at Wisconsin…Wisconsin is quite well-respected as well.</p>
<p>Both are great choices…don’t panic too much. Planning out a transfer to engineering at Michigan was easy said and done.</p>
<p>Look at the suggested schedule for the engineering majors, and have your son take the freshman engineering course. That way, he doesn’t get behind in engineering coursework, becuase it builds on the previous classes, and someone who doesn’t start out in engineering classes right away is looking at staying in college longer than 4-5 years as they complete the eng requirements. Unlike liberal arts majors, you can’t take a bunch of eng courses at one time, because they all have prerequisites starting in soph year. </p>
<p>Your son needs to be very conscious of this as he plans his freshman schedule.</p>
<p>I would not do the gap year if he is already admitted. The only thing is that it’s usually difficult to transfer into engineering majors. The GPA requirement tends to be high.</p>
<p>However, your son is only considering engineering and students change majors 2-3 times in college, so it should be fine. Postponing a year to change majors is not necessary.</p>