<p>I am currently enrolled in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute class of 2016. I am torn between mech engineering and computer science, not to mention I am also interested in econ, which RPI doesn’t have a good department for. If I like mech engineering, I am staying in RPI. If I want to go into econ or comp sci, I will transfer. I was thinking of transferring to CMU and MIT(going to risk it). Do I have to start the common app all over again? like new password, get my high school reccomendations again?</p>
<p>Transferring has some things in common and some things different from fr admissions. Go to the college websites, they will tell you what you need for transferring. </p>
<p>Don’t know if you need to register for the CA again (likely the least of your worries), but you will use them for transferring to those schools.</p>
<p>You have to make a new CA. You won’t need your old recommendations, though–this time around, you have to get them from your college professors (and you have to send them in via physical mail).</p>