<p>I'm entering USC this fall as a freshman and I might consider engineering although I was admitted as a math major in L&S. How hard is it to transfer to Viterbi, specifically for civil engineering?</p>
<p>I'm not exactly sure what the process or requirements are, though I would contact the viterbi student services by email to find out. Possibly they might look over your background (grades, SAT, performance in calc/physics/chem/etc) and they might let you change at/before orientation.</p>
<p>Altermatively they might require you to finish some prereqs first (calc, physics, GE's, etc) before you can change in. Probably nothing your math major wouldn't require anyway.</p>
<p>Either way, I would try and get in touch with them sooner rather than later.</p>
<p>Once you're in viterbi, it's all the same, you can change majors at will, so it doesn't matter that it's civil.</p>
<p>cool, thanks. are you an engineering student at usc? if you are, what could you tell me about work load and class size in general for viterbi students?</p>
<p>sure, yeah I am in engineering. I would say the work load is crazy heavy :). It's not as bad as it sounds, though. It just means having good time management and not procrastinating is important. Usually professors are pretty sympathetic (since they had to go through engineering school too) as long as you work hard.</p>
<p>Class size varys from small to medium and maybe a large every now and then. 100 level classes tend to be small (only like 11 people in my EE101...though more commonly 20-30), 200 levels tend to be largest (ranging from 30-70 people) and 300/400 levels tend to go down to like maybe 10-40 people. Your large classes tend to be GE courses, which most people don't care much about anyway, so if you want professor interaction you can still get it at office hours and such. Sometimes you'll get lucky and have much smaller than average and sometimes unfortunately a lot more people register and classes are bigger than usual.</p>
<p>aznboi, I am also gonna try to switch to CivilE from L and S; so I might see you. =)</p>
<p>From what we were told at Orientation last year, I'd agree that the sooner you switch into engineering (if you're interested), the better. There are LOTS of requirements & you might take longer to graduate if you try to switch later on in your school career.</p>
<p>does soon mean during orientation? or even earlier? because I called and they said the soonest you can change to viterbi is during orientation.</p>
<p>During Orientation should be fine--that way when you choose your classes, you'll know what the requirements for graduation in your intended school/major is. Just in case, you might want to choose a possible schedule if you stay in your original major & a different one if you switch to engineering.</p>
<p>Good to know there are people interested in Civil Engineering. I'll be starting my Junior year in CE (Structural emphasis) in the Fall. Let me know if you guys have any questions. Also, there are many different emphases within the Civil Engineering program (Structural, Building Science, Water Resources, Environmental, and then there is also general CE), so do some research on those and see which would interest you the most. Although classes for the different emphases (except environmental) don't differ until your junior year, it is nice to be declared under the major you want.</p>