<p>from another major in SEAS. How difficult is it to do, exactly?</p>
<p>what year are you? as far as i know the review for FE only happens once and that is in sophomore year. you declare for OR and then are either placed into the FE concentration or not. above all - taking the appropriate prereqs in econ/math/stats is pretty important to get into the concentration.</p>
<p>I don’t know how it’s been done before, but starting from this year, there are two times when you can apply for FE. Once in the first week of December, and once in May. People who applied in December were already notified of decisions. You don’t really transfer. You declare as an OR major first, then if you’re accepted they will switch your major for you. This all happens in your sophomore year.</p>
<p>I’m not sure of the exact difficulty, since they don’t disclose any data, but from what I heard most people who were admitted have very high GPA’s. If you want to get in, you should have taken most of the prereqs at the time of applying, and should have done well in them. Talking to people in the department, what’s most important is that you have done well in your probability course (you have to take prob and stats separately), since a lot of the further courses are based on that. Good grades in comp sci courses are also a plus, in addition to linear algebra, and ODE if you have taken that as well.</p>