<p>I'm currently in my uni's engineering school. I thought I'd like it, but I don't think it's for me after having taken some classes. I know it's also very intensive in advanced math compared to other majors, which I don't really like. So I asked the advising office (and the business school) if it's possible to transfer into one of the programs there.</p>
<p>They said it's pretty much impossible. They currently have no openings, and said that when they do (they send an email out in the spring saying how to apply to transfer) it's slim pickings. Very slim. So right now I'm pretty much stuck with either engineering or something from the school of arts and sciences.</p>
<p>This is why I am very skeptical about attending my reach school. I applied to the LAC school since the GPA/ACT score average is lower than the business school and I was told it is quite difficult to transfer.</p>
<p>dman,
It’s difficult to transfer on purpose…they don’t want to have applicants using the easier school as a back door into the more desirable school. For example, at a school like Illinois, they don’t want students using the Ag school or School of Education as a back door in to business or engineering. So it’s difficult on purpose.</p>
<p>And, of course, the desirable schools are filled from the beginning, and there is room for transfers in only in the same number of students that drop out of the desired program.</p>
<p>It’s a pain for those of us that didn’t sign up with those intentions. I wanted to see if engineering was for me, and I don’t think it is, so now what? I get an MFA instead? I thought the whole point of college was to see what you like and don’t like, and to ultimately study what you like. They sure don’t make that very possible.</p>
<p>Well it’s going to vary by school. Think about say UPenn. Wharton is significantly more difficult to get into than any other college there. Even if you didn’t think business was for you at first, they can’t make it easier for you to get in later on just because you changed your mind otherwise everyone else would claim the same reasoning. While it might seem unfair, they often have to do that. Same thing occurs here at USC for the film school.</p>
<p>Valid points, but I recall that Georgia Tech gives you one ‘free’ transfer into another college in the university, no matter which one you’re currently in. I’m assuming this even applies for transfer into their great engineering program.</p>
<p>That was the school I was actually talking about :P</p>
<p>I called the admission office and asked if I was to apply to ACES what would the process be like for me to transfer to the business school. She sounded very annoyed and told me that I would need a high GPA and meet all the prerequisites and that rarely does that happen. So I asked around and there was actually a student teacher at my school from U of I and he told me that its actually easier than they make it out to be so I am truly confused. Last thing I want is to attend U of I and go through the motions of taking preques and such to find out that I can not transfer, which is why I am leaning more towards IU.</p>
<p>dman,
I know a LOT of students who try to do this…it’s hard to do because a LOT of students want to to this.</p>
<p>Every year, a few students are successful in doing it, but many more aren’t, and then complain that they’ve been shafted, even though the writing was on the wall.</p>
<p>Getting the highest gpa of all the kids wanting to transfer is perhaps the smaller problem…getting all of the classes you need to transfer, and so you don’t fall behind and need to pay for additional semesters, is a bigger problem…there are only so many slots in prereq classes and obviously the already admitted business majors have priority.</p>
<p>One strategy is to have lots of hours from APs and community college classes so you have a better registration priority…it may help you get prereqs.</p>
<p>U of I and IU have business schools that are set up on different models. U of I basically fills the business school with incoming freshmen and internal transfers are for all practical purposes limited by the number of slots that become available. </p>
<p>IU seems to set up their business school with a mechanism by which a good number of students can declare for the business school at the end of freshman year merely by taking the required classes (basically the business school curriculum) and doing well in all of the classes (B or better); however, it seems that the standards for internal transfer at IU are being raised somewhat as a result of over-demand and this might get more difficult to do in the future.</p>
<p>Thanks for this. At this point I think I’ll be going to IU route then. That may be the worst feeling ever being denied a transfer after a year of study… Although, I applied Agri-Accounting. Do you think that would that benefit me in anyways since I would be taking similar classes?</p>
<p>There has been some discussion on the Indiana threads in this forum talking about taking the prereqs to transfer in to Kelley and how they are getting harder and harder as well. In brief, students who are IN Kelley need to get a C or better in certain courses, or retake the course, in order to stay in Kelley; however, with respect to the same courses, students in other divisions of IU who want to transfer in to Kelley are required to get a B or better in these courses (and a B- is not a B).</p>
<p>So at Indiana it is getting harder as well, although not nearly as difficult as Illinois.</p>
<p>My favorite nephew is already in to Kelley for next year and is waiting to hear from Illinois in December, so I know how you feel.</p>
<p>As of now I am not unfortunately. I am sitting with a 3.6 GPA (0.1 away…) and a 27 ACT. I took the ACT 2 weeks ago and I never felt so confident taking it so hopefully I met the 29 ACT requirement so I have a chance to petition. I believe I could do just fine if I didn’t get automatically in though considering 50% of all Kelley students aren’t direct admits. </p>
<p>Other than U of I and IU, I applied to Wisconsin @ Madison, Minnesota @ Twin Cities, and University of Dayton.</p>