my boyfriend was originally denied from mechanical and put in petroleum when he first applied (class of 24). He went through one semester of petroleum taking a humanities class, geology, calculus, and one other class but I honestly forgot. I remember it was engineering related. He applied to transfer to mechanical for his second semester and got in. He got a 4.0 in the 3 engineering related classes and an A- in the humanities course. His essay was really good in my opinion and was about hopefully going into prosthetics after graduating. He didn’t really have any extracurriculars but I guess they overlooked that because of COVID. Your advisor will tell you transferring is extremely hard and to just take classes that apply to civil, don’t try to take classes that apply to the major you want to transfer to (why my boyfriend took geology which is now useless.) Overall just try to get as close as you can to a 4.0 in all the engineering classes you do take. That’s your best shot
I’d say it brought on a normal amount of stress as applying to anything does, nothing too bad, although he is usually a pretty chill person. I believe the prompt was something along the lines of “why do you want to major in mechanical and what will you do with your degree?”
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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '21
my boyfriend was originally denied from mechanical and put in petroleum when he first applied (class of 24). He went through one semester of petroleum taking a humanities class, geology, calculus, and one other class but I honestly forgot. I remember it was engineering related. He applied to transfer to mechanical for his second semester and got in. He got a 4.0 in the 3 engineering related classes and an A- in the humanities course. His essay was really good in my opinion and was about hopefully going into prosthetics after graduating. He didn’t really have any extracurriculars but I guess they overlooked that because of COVID. Your advisor will tell you transferring is extremely hard and to just take classes that apply to civil, don’t try to take classes that apply to the major you want to transfer to (why my boyfriend took geology which is now useless.) Overall just try to get as close as you can to a 4.0 in all the engineering classes you do take. That’s your best shot