Transfering from CAS to SEAS?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>I was wondering how hard it is for the CAS student to transfer to SEAS.
I am planning to go for pre-med, but i know that pre-med is hard... so yeah.
I am also interested in electrical engineering. So... how hard is it?</p>

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<p>Why wouldn’t you just go to the school you want to go to? You can be pre-med at either school. Transferring between schools is VERY difficult.</p>

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<p>I agree with biomajor 5. It is easier to go from SEAS to CAS not CAS to SEAS because of the classes and prereqs. If you want to give engineering a try do that for a semester because CAS will always be there.</p>

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<p>well. I already applied to CAS. But if i want to transfer to SEAS in the beginning of my freshman year, would that be easy?</p>

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<p>internal transfer is a pretty straightforward process.
to get into SEAS, I believe you need a 3.4 to transfer in.
good luck!</p>

<p>(I’m a current EE major at Penn)</p>

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<p>You must complete a year in the school you were first admitted to. After that, you can transfer to other schools. There is no spring transfer within Penn.</p>

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<p>Like biomajor5 said, you need to finish out one year of CAS first. </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.college.upenn.edu/policies/transfer_internal.php[/url]”>http://www.college.upenn.edu/policies/transfer_internal.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I’d have to search a bit more but I am pretty sure the minimum GPA is a 3.0 to apply, although I’ve never heard of anyone getting turned down for a SEAS transfer.</p>

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<p>Haha first time I’ve heard of someone trying to transfer into SEAS…</p>

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<p>Yeah… I’m not really sure why anyone would ever want to do that. Mostly you hear of people fleeing SEAS.</p>

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<p>A lot of people I know (including a few friends) went to SEAS to pursue Digital Media Design.</p>

<p>For many in general however, they transfer into SEAS because they genuinely have a passion for it. Most of the guys fleeing SEAS were the ones who didn’t really know what engineering entailed to begin with and wound up having their GPA’s pounded during their freshman year, leading them to transfer into CAS to pursue something not so quantitative.</p>

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<p>If you think you’ll switch to SEAS, try taking the same courses that regular EE majors, so it’s easier to catch up if/when you switch (e.g. Chem, physics, math see to be pretty standard across all engineering majors, and fulfill pre-med requirements). A friend of mine just transferred into BE from the College (sophomore) and struggled a bit because he hadn’t taken physics yet (and 200-level BE courses assume you already have that background)</p>