Applying for an Engineering Physics Major without AP Physics

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@TomServo

At my school, a student with good credentials can be directly admitted <em>into the college of engineering</em> (which by itself comes with perks like ability to take the classes you need and participate in research or the eng honors program), but only as a “pre-engineering” major who must later declare.

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<p>How difficult is it to declare? Many of the curriculum sheets at The Ohio State University engineering major web pages indicate that one needs only a 2.0 in the prerequisite courses, so if that is true, then that is quite advantageous for the student who is not quite decided or may change majors, unless the student wants one of those whose curriculum sheets indicate competitive admission (e.g. mechanical engineering).</p>

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@TomServo

As for every major being impacted, a guy from SoCal told me he landed at my school partly because of the enormous cost and difficulty of going to a school in the UC system and the ability to change majors once there (like a lot of engineering physics majors, he initially had his sights on something else).

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<p>Every engineering major being impacted is not the same as every STEM major being impacted.</p>