<p>Hi. I am a high school junior currently in Algebra 2. Next year I want to take statistics, but my mom thinks it’s better to take trig/pre-calc. The statistics teacher is really good and the pre-calc/trig teachers are bad. Will it look bad if I don’t take trig/pre-calc? I want to maybe be a communications major</p>
<p>I dont think it will hurt you at all for communications.</p>
<p>oh God, for comms it will matter at all. Take whichever you want. I was a comms major for a while, and it’s a super easy major to get into, compared to say engineering. There were some girls in there who got like low 20’s on the ACT and they still got in.</p>
<p>Take both! At my school, people double up on subjects if they want to. I know a girl who can’t take PE for health reasons and has doubled up on science classes for all four years of high school, and a guy who stopped taking Spanish and is doubling on social studies. I personally wanted to take two english classes, because I read somewhere that Cal Poly prefers 5 semesters of english, but it would have messed up my schedule.</p>
<p>@NTKS17 you switched from communications to engineering? Isn’t that supposed to be virtually impossible?</p>
<p>I didn’t switch from comms to engineering…However, it is not impossible to do so. If you’re a smart enough comms major, and you fulfill all the requirements for changing your major to engineering. This usually consists of having a high enough gpa, completing intro engineering courses, and proving you could be successful, then it is very possible to do so. No more difficult than switching from ag or business to engineering.</p>
<p>NTKS17 is right. My son was able to switch from the College of Agriculture to Computer Science in the College of Engineering by taking and passing the freshman CPE 101/102/103 series as well as engineering calculus. Since many CSC/CPE/SE majors don’t pass this beginning series, spots open up. If you prove you can pass these difficult classes and pursue change of major early in your time at CP, you can be granted change of major, even into the College of Engineering. One of the engineering professors told us that CENG is the biggest EXPORTER of students at CP (and OCOB is the biggest IMPORTER of students), so spaces do open up in CENG.</p>
<p>Wow. I was under the impression that changing majors into engineering was downright brutal and nearly impossible.</p>