<p>So i understand there are 5 undergrad colleges</p>
<p>is there a difficulty difference amongst all them?</p>
<p>Like its harder to go in to Krieger School of Arts & Sciences than Whiting School of Engineering and so on?</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>There are significant differences except for the Krieger and Whiting Schools which, in many ways, operate as a single entity. Krieger and Whiting, often called the “Homewood Schools,” have separate faculty, deans and budgets but share a campus, residential facilities, athletic facilities, libraries, admissions office, and most everything else. While you apply and are accepted to one or the the other, you can readily switch between these two schools by simply filing a form. In other words, being accepted to one is like being accepted to the other.(The only exception is that you have to be accepted separately into the BME major at Whiting).</p>
<p>The other schools have their own campuses, admissions, libraries, etc. It may be possible for a Homewood student to cross-register for a class at these other campuses, but you would have to apply and be accepted to become a student for a degree. Peabody is the most similar to the Homewood Schools in that the undergraduate program is 4 years and there is some degree of interaction between the campuses (it is not unusual for a Peabody student to take classes at Homewood and visa versa). That is generally not true of the other two schools with undergraduates. The School of Nursing is only an upper level undergraduate school, meaning that you have to transfer in after doing your first two years of undergraduate study elsewhere. Those first two years could be at Homewood but you won’t encounter too many students at Homewood who want to become nurses. The program is for the 3d and 4th years of nursing training, and is intensive enough that there is little interaction between students at the SON and Homewood students. This is also the case for Carey Business School undergraduates. The undergraduate program at Carey is designed for older students who started elsewhere to complete an undergraduate business degree. I don’t think these students interact at all with Homewood students or, if some do, it is quite minimal.</p>