<p>The stock advice the GC at our kids’ HS gave kids who are good at math and science and had ANY potential interest in engineering was to apply to the U, declaring engineering because generally it was much easier to transfer out and still graduate in 4 years than trying to transfer IN and graduate in 4 years (if you’re allowed in at all if you don’t start as a freshman). Many of the kids from the HS took his advice and many stayed in engineering, though many chose to apply to Us that had other fields they could switch to or double-major in other fields that might have nothing to do with math, science and engineering.</p>