<p>Well, I got accepted into UCSD for structural engineering (engineering sciences) and I did some research and they say Revelle is more for pre-med/sciences while Warren is perfect for engineers. Seeing as I'm an engineer, wouldn't it be plausible for me to switch colleges?</p>
<p>you can be any major in any college. </p>
<p>the college-switching process is more complicated than you think. you can’t start it now, and you’d have to prove that the switch would shave off at least two quarters from your graduation date due to different GE requirements. </p>
<p>fwiw, i knew plenty of engineers at revelle. i entered as a BE major myself.</p>
<p>If you hate your life for the first year you can apply to transfer to another college but you have to prove that you can take all your courses + GEs for warren and take at a quarter or so less in doing so (should be easy considering the GE load for Revelle)… and you have to complete your writing courses (not sure on this one).</p>
<p>To brightside this, in Revelle, you will love the short distance to York hall where all your Physics classes and Chem classes will be (I think you might have to take Chem 6A and 6B for most engineering… I know mechanical and aerospace did).</p>
<p>Well, I’m interested in your opinions of Revelle? Does Revelle help my major in any way?</p>
<p>Im right there with you snoopy (computer engineering at revelle), does anyone know any engineers at revelle who are suffering because of their major?</p>
<p>Bump. Anyone know the difficulty of engineering majors at Revelle? I really don’t like the idea of having to spend extra time learning classes outside my major…it’d be helpful for some input!</p>
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<p>That’s inevitable.</p>
<p>So take it in stride and don’t complain? I just want to know how difficult it is to graduate on time when one is enrolled in Revelle. Thanks!</p>
<p>There’s a lot of engineers in Revelle who do fine and actually benefit in terms of career skills due to their heightened writing ability nudged onto them by the Humanities and Social GE’s. Graduation as an engineer in general at UCSD takes forever, and in the long run GE’s don’t add nearly as much time to your stay as your upper divisions. If you’re worried about graduating on time, take summer school at a community college.</p>
<p>That’s good to know. Thank you for the reply, I’m pretty sure Revelle isn’t as bad as it’s made out to be. Besides, I need to improve my writing abilities :P</p>
<p>Strangely, me and 2 of my friends who applied into engineering got assigned into Revelle (I ranked it 4th, and I’m sure it wasn’t in their top choices either), while 2 humanities people i know ended up in Warren. </p>
<p>Are these assignments random? or are they just by which college fills up first? How do they prioritize the students? (I guess being regents doesn’t help much, considering that I still got assigned to the 4th college of choice?)</p>
<p>Also, how many GE credits can someone fulfill through AP testing?</p>
<p>there’s no cap on credits through AP. you can get even more out of the way if you take them at a CC. when i was a first-quarter freshman, i met a girl who already had junior standing and was taking graduate-level math classes.</p>
<p>I am going to pass about 7 AP classes when/if I attend UCSD so hopefully that gives me a lot of credits. I ranked Revelle first because I chose to only skim the six colleges and I believed having a lot of GEs was a good idea…guess not lol</p>
<p>^Well, it’s good if you want to take a lot of GEs.</p>
<p>I don’t want to take a lot of GEs but nothing I can do about that now hahah</p>
<p>One thing that may help besides AP credit (I took a bunch and sadly, they’re not helping, but that’s me) is taking one/two classes at a local college this summer that help cover your GE’s. (It might help you get ahead of others when selecting classes for each quarter.)</p>
<p>Yeah, it seems like I’ll have to do a lot of that seeing as how difficult and rigorous engineering is…which is expected.</p>