drusba

For aerospace engineering (and mechanical engineering) you currently need a minimum 3.8 college GPA to transfer. As to why those are so popular these days, I do not know except that it may have to do partly with number who accepted the offers of admission rather than just higher popularity. They use past yield experience to determine the approximate number they are going to admit to get a desired yield and not overload (or underlaod) the department. The yield percentage for freshman engineering overall went up somewhat 0ver the last five years but kept increasing at a higher rate than overall for mechanical and aero and thus they kept admitting a somewhat lower percentage in those majors but it still presented annual 'surprises" leaving each new class for those majors overloaded and thus lowering the chances of a transfer later being admitted.

Currently, you have one and only one oppurtunity to transfer to the business college from DGS or any other UIUC college -- at the end of first year to begin in sophomore year. (Transfer into other colleges can be be attempted after first or second year and for a number of majors mid second year or even later than after second year.) The business college decides whether you can transfer after second semester freshman grades come out. Usual transfer acceptance rate into business college from the other colleges is about 50%. High grades are needed but they are no guarantee because the business college is truly a full file review college for which essays and ECs actually are important with the result that some with very high grades get rejected and others with seemingly low grades (but still in the 3s GPA) are accepted.

Becool9994

Ok. So has the policy changed. Because on the website it says that only a 3.0 is needed to transfer into the college of engineering. So I am confused with all the different responses. Here is the link.

http://engineering.illinois.edu/pros...nsfer-students

aklauss17

The minimum GPA is 3.0, but there is almost no way you would be admitted into the program with that GPA. It is too competitive and even people with the highest GPAs are turned away.

nyang888

Umm..I was accepted for Chemical Engineering...how hard would it be for me to transfer to another engineering course like electrical engineering?...also, would it be considered transfering to a different college since chemical angineering is actually in LAS not in eng?

Balthezar

Chem Eng is in LAS for traditional reasons only. It is administered by College of Engineering and its professors are in the College of Engineering. For you, it is a intracollege transfer, and is much easier than an intercollege transfer.

thorn274

well i will be going to uiuc this year (in fall semester) (as an international freshman)... in my application, i had declared my major as electrical engineering... my question is can one (i =P) change my major to computer engineering before the start of the session?? also if not, when can i change my major(at the earliest i mean)??

drusba

You cannot change your major for a year but the easiest one to make is from electrical to computer enginnering and vice versa since they are both in the same department. Moreover, the recommended first year course work is exactly the same for both.

thorn274

hmm.. k... ty for answering =)