<p>If I were to apply to Princeton Engineering, would they care about my music accolades and awards that aren't engineering-related? Because I know a lot of the hardcore engineering schools have the mindset if you have a B in math one year then you're just automatically discounted, I'm looking for schools where they care about more than just math in the admissions process. I have gotten B's every year in math, but I'm all honors and AP and great stats and EC's, so would Princeton Engineering still consider me fairly with the mathletes?</p>
<p>The math at Princeton is pretty difficult. I was a high A student throughout highschool, but I'm a B- math student here... so, depending how hard your math is, it's all relative.</p>
<p>Anyway, everything helps.</p>
<p>regardless of whether you get in or not, getting Bs in extremely easy high school math does not bode well if you're planning on a math intensive major. There is almost literally nothing of difficulty in high school math (unless you've taken multi/lalgebra, which tbh seems unlikely) and if you're having trouble already, it's only going to get much worse.</p>
<p>Unless you go to a very unusual high school, consistent B's in math implies trouble ahead in a math intensive major. On the other hand, if you are getting 4's and 5's on AP or equivalent scores on IB exams in math while getting B's in your courses, then your high school may just have very tough grading.</p>
<p>Engineering is hard even for people who sailed effortlessly through high school math.</p>
<p>i got a B in HS math in 9th grade and i got into princeton, with the major on my application being mathematics. And i got in. I applied to AB, but i'm thinking about swithcing to engineering next year. Tehre's more than math to engineering. If you're a special kid, pton engineering will defintely consider you. A great school that i applied to and strongly considered going to was University of Michigan Ann Arbor. I highly reccomend you apply there as well.</p>
<p>Don't let other people on the forum get you down. A lot of people who try to shut you down are generally jerks :P when i was applying to schools, most people on the forums said i had no chance. Yet, i got into every school i applied to. It's easier for these people to point out your weaknesses than your strengths, and you shouldb emphasize your strengths on your college apps</p>
<p>Yeah I should have no problem with the science part of engineering, I have perfect scores on everything science-related and I have a background coming from a PhDad who preached it at me nonstop from when I was little onwards. Its just the math, like I get the concepts perfectly fine but I've gotten the short straw on teachers every damn year so far. I have a lot more going for me on the application that isn't science/math related, but I'm just worried that admissions will see straight B's in math on my transcript and turn their collective noses up at this wannabe engineer :(</p>
<p>celts (Thanks for the nice response): Just how hard is it to transfer into engineering at princeton from another school? I know at Cornell, which is another place I'm considering for my top choice spot, it's very hard to do..</p>
<p>princeton doesn't accept transfers.</p>
<p>I mean from another school within Princeton.</p>
<p>I tot there are only 2 schools- the liberal arts or engineering?</p>
<p>That's what I'm asking. Would it be hard to transfer from Liberal Arts into the School of Engineering? And how early do the Engineers start getting their requirements done so at that point I would be behind major-wise?</p>
<p>Is it possible to transfer from engineering to liberal arts?..</p>
<p>Okay, a few things:
A lot of people here seem to think (implicit in the comments above) that there exists a very sharp division between Princeton engineering and non-engineering. It's really nothing like that - it's a paper distinction. While Princeton formally has a SEAS school like Columbia, Cornell or Penn, the distinction doesn't really matter much outside of what your diploma says when you graduate. That is, when you're on campus, no one really ever thinks about which "school" they're in - SEAS or not (for the record, there's no such thing as Princeton CAS).</p>
<p>Pretty much, for students, it just happens to be that you pick your major, and if your major is a certain one, the University calls it a BSE instead of an AB. Other than the fact that advising is headed by a different group of people (though no difference in style or quality), it pretty much doesn't matter which "school" you belong to. You can easily switch in and out (assuming you've got your math/physics/chem + your major's requirements) of whatever "school" fluidly, and no one really cares. In fact, for some majors, you could get either an AB or a BSE (Comp Sci is an example of this).</p>
<p>A quick disclaimer is that this lack of separation between Engineering and non-Engineering may not be as true if you're faculty or a graduate student, but I'm assuming most people here are prospective undergrads. If so, just know that there's no division between the two groups, unlike at places like Penn, Columbia, or Cornell.</p>
<p>Yeah it's no big deal to switch from AB to BSE or vice versa provided that you ultimately fulfill department requirements.</p>
<p>Transfers between AB and BSE are best done as soon as possible, ABs don't decide their major until the end of the sophomore year whereas BSEs do so at the end of freshman year. I had an freshman advisee who was a published poet and wanted to do a Certificate in Creative Writing as well as majoring in Mech Eng, she was able to complete it without any problems.</p>