Applied to IE first choice, and business undecided second. As the results aren’t out yet, I am not sure whether I got my first choice and/or second choice, but I’ve sort of changed my mind toward business. If I do get into both IE and business, can I choose business over IE or do I have to start school as an IE major and then transfer to business?
You will not get into both IE and business. You will be cosdired for IE first. If accepted, that is it, they do not go onto second choice and you are admitted only to IE and thus you will not be able to choose business. (First and only opportunity to transfer to business will then come at the end of Freshman year.) If rejected for IE, you are then considered for business. If you are then also rejected for business you will be considered for Division of General Studies.
If you want to chage your choices of majors now, you can submit a Program/Term Change Form accessible from your myilini account. Note there is downside risk to doing that. If you switch now and make business your first choice and IE your second, and internally a decision has already been made to admit you for IE (it is possible for that to have already happened), you will be giving up that decision and starting from scratch and it will become possible again for you to be rejected completely from UIUC.
@drusba Thank you so, so much for the help! Really clear explanation!
And wait…so that means I’ll have to do engineering for a whole year?!
Yes, you would be in engineering for a year and would need to take required courses for the engineering college while also taking any needed courses for transfer into business, but there is overlap. For example Calculus I and II are required for IE unless you have AP credit, while those courses also meet the math requirement for business. Chemistry and physics courses could transfer as ones to apply to the business gen-ed requirements, both need a freshman comp sci course, both have a freshman rhetoric course requirement. If you need to take language, that would also apply to businees, You would need to add at least econ 1 and 2 to an IE schedule but those can fit in as gen-ed courses in engineering.
If you are admitted to business at other colleges, be aware, in deciding what to do, that transfer into business at end of Freshman year is not easy, and, if you did not know already, even being admitted as a freshman to business is more diffcult than being admitted to IE.
Would anyone be able to chance me on my last thread?