<p>Basically, I'm interested in mechanical engineering, but not because I really want to become a professional mechanical engineer; it just interests me. If I went to UVA, I'd probably want to apply to McIntire after my sophomore year. Is it possible to do McIntire while also majoring in engineering? If so, how hard is it to complete the prereqs for McIntire as an engineering student?</p>
<p>Or should I just apply to the college and do physics or something instead?</p>
<p>Its def. possible, but I think it would require you to do some extra summer classes or possibly an extra year. If you're dead set on the comm school the best option would be the college. Also GPA is really important to Comm School acceptance so you don't want to jeopardize it at the E-School...</p>
<p>uhh, shoebox will have a more informed answer than me (since she's in the e-school) but i'll give it a try.</p>
<p>The Comm school requires a lot of work and dedication just for comm work; the same is true of the engineering school. People have their hands full doing on or the other. I don't think you'll be able to do both McIntire and engineering. You won't have enough time to devote yourself enough to either major. Most of the students applying to McIntire will only be pursuing one degree there and will be able to devote all their time to their major. You could go engineering and get a degree in finance or a minor. If you're looking to just go into McIntire but still take engineering classes before going into it, then you could apply to SEAS, do engineering work for 2 years, and then apply to McIntire. It won't be too difficult to fulfill the prereqs, just make sure you plan out your classes.</p>
<p>Actually I am a first-year in the e-school and I am thinking about applying to the comm school at the end of second-year. Unfortunately getting all the pre-reqs is quite difficult and the only way I am actually going to fulfill all of them is by using AP credits or SAT scores to skip out of many of the required classes. I, for example, am not taking the e-school writing course because I scored a 760 on the writing portion of the SATs. The comm school wants all applicants to have taken atleast two semesters of ENWR (the writing requirement for CAS students). So I will be applying to the comm school and will have taken no writing course during my time at UVA. I do not expect to get in just because even though I believe I will have the GPA, I will not have taken enough of the pre-reqs. If you really want to do engineering and business, the e-school has a major/minor business program which many e-school students take advantage of.</p>
<p>Hope this helps</p>
<p>Doing a double major with e-school/comm is going to be very difficult. I doubt you could do MechE/comm in 4 years, even with summer/j-term. Even if you tried, you're going to be burnt out. A couple of ideas would be to either plan to take 5 years, or do Systems Engineering (there are some SysEs who double with comm) and minor in MechE. Or just minor in MechE and do comm as your main major. Or major in MechE and go for the business minor.
Either way, double majoring with something like MechE and Comm is going to be very, very tough. You need to complete pre-reqs before you can get into the Comm school, and doing those on top of engineering is going to be almost impossible.</p>
<p>With the difficulty level of both, it is nearly impossible to complete the double major in a timely manner. Even in taking another year, you'll nearly certainly be completely burnt out, and probably won't have the best college experience. I'm doing chemical engineering, but like yourself don't really plan on practicing chemical engineering. It is something that interests me, and will provide a good basis of specialty knowledge in other career ventures. You may be best off spending your time in college studying MechE, or whatever you're interested in, and then going for an MBA. Realistically, in the business world, an MBA and a MechE degree will get you much farther than a Comm/MechE degree.</p>