New England Regional tuition

TaciturnType
Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:01:11 +0000

First you need to figure out if you can change majors before you have to pay tuition. I’ve talked with another prospective student in VT who’s considering ME vs a closely related engineering major, but I’ve found nothing that says you can change majors before even arriving on campus. Once you’re there it’s not too difficult, but beforehand I’m not sure. Call up whoever you can at UConn. I’d say the Bursar’s Office is your best bet. Don’t leave it to email, they won’t get back to you. The phone calls might take some time, but you have a better chance of getting a real answer.

This second part is a part of a personal gripe about everybody rushing into ME because they think it will guarantee them a job. If you do go through with this, have your son legitimately think about changing majors, too. They’ll talk your ear off about this the first semester, but you definitely shouldn’t just choose a major and stay with it because you like the description. I also have it on good authority from several friends in the SoE that essentially every professor in ME is awful, whereas most in MSE are more engaging, and some actually care about their students. Just something to think about. If you’re ever on campus, try talking to some students from each major. The Materials Advantage club has some really cool people that would probably meet you and talk about it at some point. When the MSE department came in to talk to us this fall, they said all 30 of their students had already secured jobs for after they graduated.