Decision Time!: UT General Studies or A&M Engineering

happy1
Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:51:38 +0000

If you are 100% sure that you want to be an engineer, then I’d go to A&M – there is much less of a downside risk and A&M has a fine reputation for engineering. The way I see it, if you go to A&M and can’t transfer to UT, you will still become an engineer – if you go to UT and can’t transfer to the engineering program, you won’t.

I agree with the above poster, if you want UT, you should do a lot of research about how many students per year transfer from GS to Engineering, what GPA, recommendations etc. is required, and also ask if you would have to do an extra year of coursework if you do transfer (many engineering programs start with classes freshman year which you might have to make up).