Questions about Cooper Union

<p>Err...maybe just question..
How easy/hard is it to switch majors within the same school, e.g. Chemical Engineering to Mechanical...etc?
Also how hard is it to switch from different schools, e.g. school of engineering to humanities?
And how binding is the major you pick on your application?
Thanks..
I couldn't find it on the FAQs :(</p>

<p>They say you have to have a 3.0 GPA before you can switch majors within the engineering school. The later you switch majors, the longer you're going to have to stay in school to make up the missed courses in the new major. Most people who switch majors switch from one of the traditional ones to general engineering, which has looser course requirements. You usually don't have to stay an extra semester if you take this option.</p>

<p>Switching across schools would mean you have to start from scratch. You wouldn't really be switching schools, but rather you'd be applying as a new applicant, ie. you'd be place in the same pool as h.s. applicants. I know a few people who have jumped between architecture and civil engineering though. And btw, there is no humanities school.</p>

<p>Thanks.....</p>

<p>Actually, it depends on your scores. I switched from civil to chemical. I walked in to the ChE dept head's office and he pulled up my entrance score, and it was high enough, so I was transferred. It probably depends on the year. My year, there were about 100 engineers, pretty evenly distributed amongst the majors--when we matriculated. Sometime sophmore year there were 40 EEs--about 2x as many to begin with. Chemical and Electrical engineering are going to require tougher scores than civil or mechanical. If you are wanting to transfer down, no problem. If you want to transfer up, you either need to make friends with the right people (Cooper is very small like that), or have the right scores. </p>

<p>Regarding humanities, Cooper has a BSE program. It's really for people who've decided to go to Cooper and don't want to be engineers but want a semi-technical back-ground as a jumping board to law, business, or medical school--generally, they're the butt of academic jokes because they have a lot of flexibility in their schedule. They have the ability to take more than 24 credits of humanities--without too much strain. If you have your heart set on a french history degree in NYC, I'd say you might want to look at NYU. If BSE sounds appealing, transferring into BSE is a matter of explaining why. Some people try to do it to avoid getting kicked out for bad grades 'cause its easier. If you make the case for transferring to it for one of the reasons above (med school, law, etc.), they usually go for it.</p>