<p>Absolutely start out in A&S. My son intends to go into engineering but didn’t want the pressure of starting out there so he only applied to A&S. Call Swanson and they’ll give you all the info about transferring in but as long as your GPA is okay then I think it’s pretty automatic. When you want to take introductory engineering from A&S, you need to get permission from Swanson and then you take the same engineering class that the Swanson students take. My daughter’s at Pitt and she did take that engineering, also scientific calc - both from A&S (she wound up transferring into the business school instead of Swanson). </p>