Thank you guys for the advice. A few extra clarifications and questions.
@Knowsstuff I would have liked to take AP Calculus BC and perhaps AP Physics C as well, but my high school is very small and sadly does not offer those courses, only AP Calc AB and AP Physics I.
@098123Student You say I’d make a stronger candidate for the LSA school. Considering that, it does seem like a more attractive route, but I’d rather eventually end up in a STEM major, since that’s always where my academic strength and interest has lied, so could I go in as undecided until I can transfer?
As far as the vibe of not screaming engineering other than interest, at this point in time you’d be right, but our school does not offer much opportunities for engineering experience (there’s the robotics team, but I tried it freshman year and had a bad experience. basically the instructor had all of the veterans did all of the work and not bother to see if the newer members could keep up. I relentlessly asked the veterans for help, but they would get distracted very easily and not help at all, leaving me as not much of a contributing member.) There are new one semester engineering and computer science classes available, but I don’t want them to screw up my AP classes if I can’t get them in second hour to replace choir, and even if they are available second hour, they may be full already. If I try to do this and it doesn’t work out, can you recommend other ways to gain basic engineering related experience?