<p>so i've decided to do chemical engineering instead of bioengineering. I hear that bioengineering is more tracted towards medical or bioengineering itself whereas chemical eng is more towards pharmaceuticals and biotechnology(which is what im itnerested in). Is this true and if how would i go about changing my major and when?</p>
<p>bump bump</p>
<p>i applied for bioE but got in for chemE</p>
<p>oh really? for ucla? and you wanted to go for bioE?</p>
<p>yeh hella werid i got chemE instead of bioE at ucla</p>
<p>also i got bioE at ucsd</p>
<p>I believe BioE is impacted, so it's one of the more difficult engineering majors to get into.</p>
<p>la doesnt have that great of a bioE program though, which is mainly why i want to change to ChemE</p>
<p>I mean, i could just as easily go to ucsd where their bioE program is like 2nd in the nation but i highly prefer the la community and area over sd.</p>
<p>lol dehtran same boat as you...i am leanin more on ucla b/c of the community, social life and sports but parents leanin on ucsd b/c bioE 2nd in nation</p>
<p>you can change your major after one or two years of GE classes taken with all of the other engineers. for now, it wont matter what engineering you're listed under. as long as you have good grades, u can change ur major at any time.. usually after the 2nd year and right before your 3rd year (before the lower/upper division courses). whether or not you choose UCLA, ucla will have a better name than UCSD in every category.. just wait a few years.. you'll see. =P</p>
<p>thats pleasing to hear i believe flospy told me 3.5 or higher and ur set to change i really want to change to EE beacuse "you can't spell gEEK without EE" from Eng video</p>
<p>oh.. so engineer GEs are all teh same for all Engineering majors?</p>
<p>Engineering GEs are just about the same for all engineering majors. The only exception is for Computer Science, which has to take a few extra GEs because they have a few less actual engineering classes to take. Bioengineering is rated low because it is a very new major here. But trust me, it is not any lower in actual quality and some of the professors are at the very top of their field. Chemical engineering is very hard and quite possibly the hardest major at this school. You have to love chemistry or you will have a very long 5 years here.</p>
<p>r u taking chemE? how do u know its the hardest i thought it wasnt that good at ucla</p>
<p>No I'm a computer science major, one of my old roommates was a Chem E major (one of my current apartmentmates has been a Bio E major since its inception less than 3 years ago). When I lived with my old roommate, he was quite possibly the most miserable person studying I've ever known. Chem E is so hard because it combines all the fun of all the engineering prereqs with all the joy that is collegiate chemistry. So not only do you have to take 2 years worth of calculus and linear algebra (plus 3 quarters of hard ass physics on top of that), you have to take all the lower division chemistry courses, which normally cripple people's GPAs anyway, and then take all your upper division Chem E courses. All you have to know is that it takes well over 200 units to graduate from Chem E (most engineering degrees are in the 180s-190s, and most engineers take more than 4 years to graduate).</p>
<p>Just because the ranking may not be as good doesn't mean that it will not be extremely difficult here. Chem E is so difficult because it takes so many classes, the subject material is extremely difficult, and generally it will just eat up all your time. I've talked to engineering grad student friends about it and they agree that Chem E is the hardest engineering major here.</p>
<p>But if you really, really like chem, I don't want to discourage you because it is a good opportunity since not a whole lot of people do it.</p>
<p>ha.. ill rethink that then. I mean, so bioE will be up there in a matter of years wont it? i know sd's got a way better program, but i probably will end up choosing la over sd because of the community, people, and area. Will this be a regret in the future?</p>
<p>BioE is also very, very difficult. Be prepared to take 3-5 lab courses each semester and on top balance your other extracirricular activities.</p>
<p>if u get kicked out of chemE where do u go?</p>
<p>There's only one way to get kicked out of the ChemE major, and that's through prolonged academic probation, in which case you get kicked out of UCLA entirely... :rolleyes:</p>
<p>what exactly is "prolonged academic probation" do u not meet a certain gpa?</p>
<p>so bioE is tough huh? how does it compare to other engineering majors at la in terms of "toughness"?</p>