Does anyone go to engineering department

anon94785555
Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:24:24 +0000

All students are admitted to the university as a whole. You can change your major at any time and can take any courses you qualify for at any time. Since you need to meet certain requirements before being admitted to the School of Engineering you were placed, like the vast majority of students, in L&S. For example- you will need the L&S math and physics courses. But you will be able to also take engineering courses open to you as a freshman as well despite being in L&S.

The reason students do not take all of the courses they would like to is that doing so would take time away from courses required for graduation in their major. By submitting an engineering major when you applied you were placed with advisors for preengineering students at SOAR. This will help you get questions answered this summer (btw- be sure to have your parents attend SOAR, their program is worthwhile, even if they know UW and/or Madison). The main restriction to taking courses is in being able to finish your degree in 4 years- you could spend 6 years to be able to take all the nonmajor courses you want, get a second major- some students do. Time is money- in lost wages and tuition paid.