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I think the undergrad program coordinator (admin staff), Jenny Ehrnthaller, gave you the wrong information. She probably mixed up the requirements for outside transfers.</p>
<p>Here’s the intra-university transfer guidelines for ECE:
[Transferring</a> to ECE Guidelines - ECE ILLINOIS | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign](<a href=“http://www.ece.illinois.edu/students/transfer/guidelines.html]Transferring”>http://www.ece.illinois.edu/students/transfer/guidelines.html)</p>
<p>There is no requirements for completing 60 credits and maintaining a 3.8 GPA. The only requirement is the intro course ECE 110, and</p>
<p>“Only students who are doing well overall will be considered for transfer to ECE. This means you should be getting mostly Bs and As in math, physics, and ECE 110, while taking regular technical loads of classes each semester. For example Math 231, Phys 211, ECE 110, Geog 101 is considered a typical load (three technical classes, one non-technical class).”</p>
<p>Note that this is for transferring between colleges, hence the math/chem/physics requiements. Transferring between departments in the College of Engineering should only be easier.</p>