<p>Hello everyone! This is my first time actually posting on the forum so bare with me.
So, I am a third year college student and am in desperate need of advice. I transferred from my local community college to the University level with intentions of pursuing a degree in engineering. I transferred with roughly 90 credit hours and a gpa of 3.81. Although I graduated from the junior college with an associates in general studies, my main focus was math and science.
So, my first year at the university didn't go so smoothly. I think I got so overwhelmed with the college life that lost sight of why I was there in the first place. Long story short, my grades dropped. This really discouraged me, so I switched to business. The coursework is cake but I am not challenged nor interested in what I am studying. I haven't even begun the actual major coursework (this semester I am finishing all of the foundations courses needed to declare.)
Finally, my question is: Is it too late to switch back?? Even though my grades weren't too hot, I was truly interested in and definitely challenged. I honestly believe I am fully capable of completing the rigorous coursework needed to graduate with an engineering degree. I just feel that switching my major for the second time makes everything that I have done up to this point a huge waste of time and money; well at least everything after the university core curriculum.
Also, maybe some suggestions as to what to study? I was always interested and excelled in physics and chemistry. Never taken a single bio class outside of high school. </p>
<p>Hope my first post wasn't too long! Hope to hear from some of y'all soon!</p>
<p>You really need to sit down with the academic advisor and find out what your options are. Some Us have a limit on how many credits you can get and engineering often has very specific requirements and GPA for admission. You also need to find out how many terms it will take you to graduate with ANY degree and how your and family finances will handle this. FAid can be limited to a set number of terms, so going beyond that can be very costly. </p>
<p>Make an appointment with your academic advisor ASAP and talk about your options NOW. In the meantime, do as well as possible in your courses to help bring up your grades and give yourself as many options as possible.</p>
<p>Yep, this is an academic advisor question. I can only tell you though, it is a lot easier to switch now, than finish a useless degree, work in a useless job, and THEN finally go back at 29 like I did.</p>
<p>For many engineering programs, it can take a full 4 years in their program to get a degree. If you have a GPA of at least 3.0 in engineering, there are more internship and job options. A 3.5 is even better.</p>
<p>Thanks for the quick replies you guys. I already have an appointment with my academic adviser. I know ya’ll wouldn’t be able to give me an answer as to how much longer it would take me to graduate, or how much more it would cost me to switch my major so late with the information I gave in my original post. I was more or less wanting your personal opinions on my situation.
Would you make the late switch if you knew what you were doing right now wasn’t what you wanted to do as a career?</p>
<p>It’s important to sit down with your counselor to see how close you are to ANY degree, whether you can get into engineering, how long it would take to complete, cost, etc. only when you get that info can you talk with whomever is funding you to see what is feasible. </p>
<p>One option some have tried is to get a masters in a field they prefer, if they can get undergrad degree in reasonable time. That’s another possibility and more $$$$ and time.</p>