<p>Does anybody know how hard it would be to switch colleges, from Chemistry to Letters and Science? I am an incoming freshman. Thanks.</p>
<p>the college of chemistry usually lets you do it...they just give you a hard time about it. so you just really have to make sure you know why you want to switch, and be able to make your case. of course, as all the other colleges, you'll have to spend at least a semester in chemistry, and so you have to get special approval for a non-chemistry schedule of classes. and that means you have to talk to an L&S advisor to make sure you're taking the right classes for your intended major.</p>
<p>thank you.</p>
<p>What about switching from Chemistry to EECS?</p>
<p>Switching into L&S is easy since there is plenty of space. Switching into the environmental studies college is also comparatively easy. Anything invovling engineering or college of chemistry is very very hard to change.</p>
<p>actually, they just tell you it's really hard to change. i'm an incoming freshman too, and was initially in L&S, and switched to CoC before CalSO..just signing some paper work..filling out a request/reasons why you want to switch. i dunno, maybe it wasn't difficult b/c not that many people requested to switch ?</p>
<p>There's a College of Chemistry?I thought chemistry was part of L&S.</p>
<p>Nope CoC is separate for some reason and contains Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.</p>
<p>Letters and Science does offer chemistry, but only as a B.A.</p>
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<p>But it being a BA (and not a BS) doesn't really matter. What does is the actual important differences (aka even if you are sad you have a BS and not a BA, tough, what actually matters is the different classes you're required to take, to name one thing).</p>
<p>You know what's weird, chemistry being a B.A. and business being a B.S., I think it is anyway. How the hell is chemistry an ART and business a science?</p>
<p>first, transferring into engineering, from any college, is difficult because you need to have the grades AND they need to have space for you. that means you can have a 4.0 and everything but they won't take you if they don't have space for you.</p>
<p>second, with chemistry, i've been told that it's easier to get in than to get out. they're glad to have people transfer into the college, but like i said, they give you a hard time if you want to get out.</p>
<p>and third, you shouldn't distinguish a BA or BS by the actual subject. some advisors i've spoken to call the BS a "professional degree." what that means is that if you get a BS, then you've been trained for a certain profession...you are able to get certain jobs as an undergraduate. whereas with a BA, you can still get a job, but not those specific ones that require a certain amount of training. and you might have to go to graduate school to get those jobs. for example, the BA in chemistry has more options for classes in the humanities and is recommended for pre-med students and those pursuing a career in education, while the BS is for students interested in research or industry work.</p>
<p>also, berkeley gives its architecture students a BA because of the incorporation of humanities classes...and those students usually don't start working right away. but at calpoly, they start their students on hardcore classes from the start...they get a BS and usually enter the workforce earlier.</p>
<p>I'm a freshman too..and after a week of chem 4a.. i think i want to get out of CoC.
Is chem 4a really harder than chem 1a? I'm thinking about switching to L&S for premed not CoC premed.</p>