<p>Hi, I'm currently in MCS and i know majors aren't declared until after sophomore year. I am trying to take an intro to materials or intro to chemE class in the first semester during orientation. What is the likelihood that I will be given a seat in either class?</p>
<p>I know that I have to take an intro to engineering class to transfer to CIT but i'm not sure if i want to be a materials science major or chemE major so is it ok if i take intro to materials class and transfer to CIT, and then change my mind and try to be a chemE major?</p>
<p>Does anyone have any experience transferring from MCS to CIT? Do we still have to take two intro to engineering classes? How does a successful transfer work anyway? What do they look for? a good Gpa in the intro class? Thanks a lot, please include as much as detail as you can.</p>
<p>I started out in CIT and am still here, so I don’t know a whole lot about the details of the transfer process, but I do know some stuff from being in CIT.</p>
<p>MCS -> CIT is overall not a bad transition. You will be taking the same calc classes, and they will often let you count the Physics for Science students sequences and not have to also do the Physics for Engineers sequence (which is so LUCKY, because Physics for Engineering is a lot harder…and not just according to me, according to my professor). </p>
<p>Anyway, I don’t know how easy it will be for you to get the engineering intros - I took intro to Mat Sci first semester, and there were definitely people from other colleges than CIT in it, but they may not have been freshmen. Not sure. If there’s room, you can do it; if not, you’ll have to wait. Transferring into CIT as Mat Sci and then changing to ChemE I <em>think</em> would technically be allowed, but seeing as you’d already be behind in terms of some classes, you might have an awfully hard time catching up and graduating on time (caveat - depends on stuff like what AP credit you came in with, how early you’re able to get the engineering intros, etc. - YMMV). </p>
<p>Yes, you still have to take 2 intro engineering classes. Good grades in your science/math classes will help, as will good grades in the engineering intros.</p>
<p>I’m looking to do the same thing. MCS physics –> CIT Mech.E…I have to try to get into an intro during orientation also. Good luck, we’re ganna need it haha</p>
<p>Physics and MechE are so isomorphic you could go a full year and then switch and have maybe one or two classes to catch up on, and even after two years you’ve done a lot of classes that are practically equivalent but don’t count as each other (Math Methods of Physics vs. Differential Equations for instance).</p>
<p>I’m a physics major, my roommate is MechE. We get along quite well.</p>
<p>^Hmm, really? I know someone who transferred physics to MechE, and even though he’s a year ahead of me (e.g. class of '13), we’re in most of the same classes because he has to play catch up. It’s really nice that the math and physics courses line up, but having to take the two engineering intros can make things hard…I guess it depends on whether youg et one in freshman year or not, though.</p>
<p>on SIO, the waitlist number for intro to chemE is 6, what are my chances of getting in? Will it be helpful to talk to the professor? It says Dahl on SIO. How is she as a professor? Should i speak to CIT advisors or MCS advisors to take intro to chemE?</p>
<p>It does of course depend on how much AP credit you came in with. Since that allows you to skip a lot of the early classes like physics I or calc I.</p>
<p>Seriously though, regardless of how the schedule turns out. If you like physics and you can do physics, you can probably do MechE and you very well might like it.</p>
<p>Haha why is that schedule horrible? It seems fine to me. I’m still trying to get into Intro to ChemE, is there any advice you can give me? How’d you get in anyway, my advisor told me the earliest you can try is orientation. The waitlist number is 6 on SIO, which kinda scares me. What are my chances of getting in?</p>
<p>^Haha, okay, I’m glad I’m not the only one who was like waait, why is it so bad? I agree that the timing of your classes is a little unfortunate, physicsdude - sorry about all the awkward gaps and stuff, but it’s definitely a fairly typical schedule…unfortunately, a lot of times weird gaps like that are unavoidable :/</p>
<p>Yea, I’ve seen worse. I had a roommate freshman year whose schedule looked like someone took a shotgun and aimed it at a wall and then drew boxes around the holes. It is kind of obnoxious/annoying to have to get up for an 8:30 class and then have all day free until the late afternoon. Then again, having an 8:30 class as a freshman is not that bad at all. I don’t think anyone had a high school that started later than that and you live essentially right next door. After your freshman year, when your workload starts to get really egregious, that’s when you’ll want to be able to sleep in a bit more.</p>
<p>By the way, I don’t know about you guys, but as a physics major one of my hardest scheduling issues is there’s ONE section of every required physics class. So if that ONE section is the only thing I have that absolutely has to be at 8:30AM then it doesn’t matter if I have another class I can place anywhere in the day, I might as well take the section at 9:30 so that they’re one block together.</p>
<p>Haha I wasn’t worried about the times. I am just worried that it will be ridiculously hard! Especially with a job, and hopefully joining a few engineering clubs. But, I guess that’s why we’re at CMU right?</p>
<p>And thepal, I have been emailing a lot of people about it this summer and finally someone got me a spot. My advisor said if I wanted to try for a different intro class, I would have to wait until orientation. </p>
<p>Does anybody know anything about intro to civil?</p>
<p>Yeah, unfortunately that’s going to be a pretty typical schedule…it’s pretty normal to have 4 math/science/engineering classes plus 1 humanities class. It is true that many freshman due 3 math/science/engineering classes plus 1 humanities, but generally by sophomore year you’ll have to be doing at least 4 math/science/engineering classes at a time, unless you came in with a lot of AP credit (or depending on your major; for some reason, CivEs only have 1 CivE class first semester sophomore year, while MechEs have 2…)</p>
<p>Anyway, my former roommate took Intro to CivE first semester. She thought the professor was really boring, but didn’t think the class was too hard. However, she did end up deciding the civil was really what she liked best, and declared CivE, despite being less than captivated in that class Don’t know if it’s the same prof this semester, though.</p>
<p>Oh, yeah, the classes themselves are fine. The times just suck. Your massive holes on Monday/Weds in the middle of the day are going to not be very fun.</p>
<p>Then again, 8:30 classes are par for the course in most tech majors I guess. My roomie is a math major and she has 9 AM-ish classes even as a junior. I did that my first two years but this upcoming semester I won’t be waking up before 11 on most days of the week (except Mon/Weds… screw early game design courses.)</p>
<p>Welcome to CMU. You may think that waking up at 8:30 is fine now, but after your first few late nights out with friends, you’ll be hating the sound of that alarm.</p>
<p>Haha thanks. Yeah, it is going to be a big change for me. During the summer it’s bed at three, up at noon. Now it will be bed at three, up at seven haha.</p>
<p>I’m glad to hear the classes are not that bad. I guess going into CMU I assume I am going to be killing myself just for B’s.</p>
<p>I’m a sophomore in MCS (math) and also want to transfer into CIT. Well, not exactly transfer, but I want to try to double in math and CivE. I’m signed up for intro to CivE for the fall, and also on the waitlist for statics, which is the typical sophomore fall course for CivE. I’m 1/3 on the waitlist though, so I assume I should have a pretty good chance of getting in. Also, there’s that general intro to engineering that I would have to take, but I might have to wait to fit that in. If the full double major seems like too much, then I will just want to take as much substance CivE classes as possible for the knowledge, so the intro to engineering would be useless. It would be sorta odd if I ended up taking intro to engineering junior or senior year though.</p>
<p>There is no general intro to engineering…they’re all major specific…also, can you take CivE statics without taking the CivE intro first? I know you can’t do that for MechE…</p>
<p>Sorry, I shouldn’t have said general intro to engineering. I just meant the second required specific intro to engineering class. On the academic audit, it just says “intro to engineering”, so in my head I just think of it as “general” haha. </p>
<p>And, I talked to the statics professor in the spring, and he said I should be fine taking into to CivE and statics the same semester. I hope that is the case at least, because it would be nice to jump right into track with the others who started freshman year in CIT.</p>
Don’t know if it’s the same prof this semester, though.</p>
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