One of the advantages of coming in with credit is that it allows you a lighter load than many might have. In engineering this is typically a good thing. You will be doing a lot more work than you did in HS and all of it will be much more time consuming. My D was a Chem E that went into Purdue with 42 credit hours. This allowed her to reduce her academic load to 13-14 hours per semester and she played in their orchestra which was another 2 hours. It allowed her to work on a research project later in her Purdue education and she also did a 5 term coop (it didn’t affect her time completing her degree it was still 5 years with the coop). Can you get a minor unrelated to engineering? Possibly. I would wait to commit to that until you get a sense of just how well you handle the work load. It can be surprising even to the best of students. One thing I would recommend is that Purdue has a very large engineering career fair in the fall. It would be a good place to go and talk to people about their companies and find out who hires Computer Engineers and for what types of positions. You may even find out if they hire coops and then determine if you are interested in one. Good luck.
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