<p>I'm entering the undergrad college admission process and some colleges that I am applying to are binding in terms of the departments/schools I apply to. I am interested in engineering, but I don't want to get myself stuck.</p>
<p>What were your reasons to enter an engineering school?</p>
<p>I like applications of sciences and problem solving. Humanities (esp history) have never been my forte. I also did some reading on engineering and all of it fascinates me, especially biochemical engineering. But I don't know if that's enough reason to apply to an engineering school? It seems my options would be more open in a college of arts and sciences.</p>
<p>I like the engineering field because it focuses on being innovative and creating products and structures that are useful in everyday life. I have always been in mechanical devices, electronics, and construction. I have found that math and physics come easily to me while I’m not a humanities person. I knew that engineering was for me because I like the idea of applying science concepts to work with applications. As a career, I am interested in maintaining the infrastructure of a major city and working with construction, so I am majoring in civil engineering. That’s also a reason why I chose civil over my other choices of mechanical and electrical.</p>
<p>First of all, I doubt that most of the schools to which you are applying for engineering are binding. If so, the vast majority of engineering schools are non-binding so you could easily change majors to a science. Note that it is easier to start in engineering and then switch to science than it is to go the other way.</p>
<p>Kidding aside, I like the fact that engineering has the best risk and return trade-off when it comes to job hunting. There are certainly some excellent jobs for those who graduated from top business schools, but with so many students in business programs, the ultra-competitive nature isn’t worth it.</p>
<p>Most schools aren’t “binding” in terms of your major. The only ones that are binding are the ones that only offer engineering and nothing else. Which schools are you thinking of?</p>
<p>It’s easier to switch out of engineering than switch into engineering because of all the prerequisites. Engineering tends to have a very linear curriculum, where one course builds on top of another.</p>
<p>I majored in engineering because I love large cities and construction. My studies gave me a great understanding of how all the infrastructure around us is designed and built.</p>
<p>By the by, not being good at or liking the humanities is definitely not a prerequisite for being an engineer. I love the humanities (and am actually going to law school in a year so maybe I am just weird) but I also love all of my technical classes in EE. </p>
<p>I chose to do EE partly because it is a challenging degree, partly because if I decided I didn’t want to go to law school I would still be able to get a job doing something I liked, but mostly… because my dad lead me to believe EEs are the wizards of our time.</p>
<p>Time proved him right, but it was still a silly reason to pick the degree.</p>
<p>I think that has more to do with the kind of people who go from engineering, physics, and math into law than any particular advantage the programs endow on people in them.</p>
<p>On that note though, Pre-law majors and criminal science majors consistently get the lowest LSAT scores. Interesting…</p>