<p>I'm still 50/50 between engineering and pharmacy...</p>
<p>so will the intro EE classes give me enough of a taste to see if I belong there? I don't want to go too far and decide I want to switch and be behind on pharmacy pre-reqs...</p>
<p>I am in the exact same position. I know someone who graduated a few years ago from the ECE program at UT and he said that it is a very good program but it is also very difficult. He is very smart (he had like a 1530/1600 on the SAT) and he said he managed to barely get a 3.2 GPA with electrical engineering. He also said that it involves a WHOLE lot of difficult math that even people who are excellent at math have a hard time at. The physics classes in the 2nd and 3rd year are very difficult as well. I think I am going to go ahead and switch to pharmacy because I think I will enjoy it more and it will allow me to have some free time. I don’t think you’ll have that much free time with electrical engineering at least not after the first year.</p>
<p>EE isn’t a major for people who just see it as a way to get a good job at graduation. It’s way too hard and you’ve really got to feel passionate about it.</p>
<p>Something like pharmacy or accounting or some other non scholarly trade school like major is better for those who just want a “career”.</p>
<p>^ Yea I agree with a Business degree being popular just to get your bills paid after college. </p>
<p>But Pharmacy? Very heavy in math and science. Not to mention the 3 year commitment after college. Oh, and the Pharmacy school schedule is something like class all day (literally 9-5), 5 days a week (I saw a student schedule for it once). However, I have heard of Pharmacists getting around 30k sign on bonuses at these Wal-Greens and CVSs popping up every where.</p>
<p>Pharmacy requires Calc I only as the highest math class. Most preqs are basically pre-med, which means sophomore chemistry and biology before the pharmacy classes proper, which are very concrete as opposed to abstract. Pharmacy is definitely not an easy major, but EE by comparison requires both abstract intuitive thinking (not as deep as math/physics/CS but close) as well as an intense work load.</p>
<p>^ Cal 1? Really? I’m switching majors.</p>