<p>On my application, I wrote that I was interested in engineering anddd did the additional essay for the engineering school. I'm not sure if I still want to be an engineer though. </p>
<p>Am I allowed to change after freshman year starts? Is it like impossibly hard to?</p>
<p>Also - if I get rejected from the program, can I still be accepted to the university?</p>
<p>Hahah sorry about the million questions. :)</p>
<p>The program is not separate. Rejection from engineering is rejection from the university. It’s very easy to change majors.</p>
<p>Oh really? I got this off the Princeton website’s admission FAQs:</p>
<p>Do students apply to specific academic departments or schools?</p>
<p>We ask you to tell us on the application which degree program you may be most interested in following: A.B. (liberal arts), B.S.E. (engineering) or undecided. We look closely at the math and science preparation of students considering engineering studies. However, students apply to the freshman class of Princeton University, not to the engineering or liberal arts programs, and are not locked into a degree program (or a specific department within that degree program) upon admission. Students in the engineering school choose a concentration (major) by the end of the first year; liberal arts students have two years to choose a concentration.</p>
<p>Where did you hear that from, Wasslion?</p>
<p>Doesn’t what you posted answer your question?</p>
<p>My mistake.</p>
<p>Yeah, I found it after I posted the question and read a bit more about it.</p>
<p>I just wanted to tell wasslion about it. Are you applying for B.S.E. too?</p>
<p>I applied B.S.E, too. My interviewer had very good things to say about engineering there (though being an Econ Ph.D). I’ve heard that it can be slightly easier to be admitted for engineering (though that certainly wasn’t my motivation).</p>
<p>Really? I heard that too…because Princeton is apparently trying to get more engineering students so it can compete with MIT/Ctech and all?</p>
<p>I never knew the two departments were so separated.</p>
<p>@ tigerton: Hahaha well most of us don’t know what actually goes on, we make up [or ‘construe’ 
] half of the stuff that we decide must be truee. :P</p>
<p>Switching from AB to BSE or vice versa is extremely easy and takes all of 20 minutes to do so.</p>
<p>wait so applying with Engineering at Princeton makes it easier?!!? Any evidence to back that up?</p>
<p>I am applying to engineering anyway.</p>
<p>Applying to engineering without significant evidence for passion and talent in engineering will lead to a rejection.</p>
<p>As long as you can make it seem like you’d make a really great engineer, applying to BSE may be advantageous. But applying to BSE when you’re clearly better suited to be a math or physics major might be a really bad idea.</p>
<p>k cause I am really into Engineering (got into Caltech class of 2014), but I am still strongly considering Princeton over Caltech.</p>
<p>Oh, for sure come to Princeton over Caltech. Not even a close call.</p>
<p>Randombetch, I’d be interested in what’s behind your comment re Caltech vs Princeton. My son got his acceptance to Caltech yesterday & is waiting on Princeton. They seem hard to compare in general, though maybe you’re referencing the engineering programs. He’s between math & engineering.</p>
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<p>Uh oh, that sounds pretty rigid. I’ve heard many other schools say it takes only 5 minutes.</p>
<p>^Well, you have to go talk to someone, and the walk will take at least 10 minutes or so.</p>