<p>Once enrolled at CMU, how difficult is it to switch colleges? I assume it varies with what school you want to get into, but how difficult would it be to get from Humanities to Business if that’s what you decide you want to do? Engineering?
Thanks</p>
<p>Switching from humanitites to business will be ridculously hard, as will engineering. There are not many slots that open up in colleges, and those that are have huge applicant pools within the school wanting to do the same thing. You and half of your class will all be vying for those twenty slots every year. Don’t come here if you’re not ok with possibly being stuck with that major for the next four years</p>
<p>Yes Red_dragone has hit upon the one thorn that bothers me about CMU. Each college is very separate from every other college. In fact, trying to transfer from school of humanities to engineering or business is the same as trying to transfer from one university to another. </p>
<p>CMU wants kids that really know what they want and will stick with the school that they are in. Most other colleges are not like that at all. Thus, if you are not sure about your major or school of interest, CMU may well be a bad fit for you.</p>
<p>how about from mech engineering to electrical?</p>
<p>External transfers are not comparable. They are very rare, but the colleges at CMU acknowledge internal transfers, it just depends upon a slot being available.</p>
<p>Todd@, so switching within, say, CIT is like changing majors at most other universities…as long as there’s space, you can do it?</p>
<p>Yes, but finding the space is the difficult part. And chirag, transferring from mech e to electrical is not very hard. Just have about a 3.5 your freshman year and it’s fairly easy to transfer into ece because many end up dropping out to more general engineering majors</p>
<p>I think I just define internal transfers better, I realized it sounds kind of confusing:</p>
<p>The first ‘layer’ of internal transfers, if you will, are people in an entirely different college wanting to transfer in. Say, an econ major (H&SS) wanting to transfer to business (Tepper). This is pretty hard since a lot of CMU students attempt to take this route after primary rejection.</p>
<p>The second ‘layer’ are transfers within a college. Say, an Mech E wanting to transfer to ECE. This is fairly easy since there’s a quite of bit of waffling around departments as people switch CIT majors. So eventually there will be a spot for you to slide into. The problem will be, however, how behind you are on that majors requirements by the time you get in.</p>
<p>so there’s a clearer definition, hope that helps:)</p>
<p>Red_dragone notes,“Just have about a 3.5 your freshman year and it’s fairly easy .” </p>
<p>This is easier said that done. Generally less than 10% of the student population ( and usually less than 5%) get a 3.5 or better in their freshmen year. CMU is also not known for giving out easy A’s</p>
<p>what about switichin from MCS to CIT or the business school</p>