<p>How much "easier" is it to get into SEAS?</p>
<p>And if I decide I don't want to do engineering, after the first year, I know I can transfer to CAS. Is the 3.0 GPA the only requirement? Or is it competitive? Like, it's min 3.0 but if like 100 people want to transfer, then it's in descending GPA order?</p>
<p>In terms of admission rates, it might seem easier, but they tend to look for students who have interest in science, so in a sense it is self-selecting. </p>
<p>I hear transferring to CAS should be no problem. You only have to worry about that when a lot of people decide to transfer one year then it is descending, but I don’t think that’s ever happened. An advisor told a friend of mine that she needed a 3.3 to be safe in transferring from Wharton to CAS. I don’t know if that helps</p>
<p>It’s not considerably different, I definitely think engineering is less selective ONLY because it is self-selecting. Still the difference between SEAS and CAS is fairly small. I might be completely making this up, but I would not be surprised if the engineers at Penn had some of the highest scores particularly in math.</p>
<p>If you’re trying to use it to get in, I still think you have a better shot at going for something you genuinely love. This might just be completely ridiculous, but from the Stats posts, I’ve seen that the most competitive major in CAS seems to be biology (the highest scores are still getting rejected). </p>
<p>Depending on what you plan on doing, CAS may not be as hard as you think to get accepted into. Imagine having to spend a full year doing something you don’t even like doing…to me, at least (again this is just my take), that’s worse than just getting rejected.</p>
<p>You should really apply to the school that you actually want to be a part of rather than trying to play an admission rates game.</p>
<p>The biggest difference between Engineering and College, imo, is that engineering majors have significantly more requirements in terms of the credits you need. As a result, you have significantly less flexibility in choosing what classes you want to take outside of your major.</p>