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Second or Third Choice Major

When the demand by qualified students for a major that is under enrollment control exceeds the available space, students are offered their second or third choice major. These are the students whose cumulative GPA ranked them below the enrollment limit for the major.

Qualified students who are offered admission to a College of Engineering major that is not their first choice must notify the Office of Student Services whether they accept the offer. Failure to respond to an offer of admission to a second or third choice major in the college may result in loss of admission to any major in the College of Engineering. If the second choice is a major outside the College of Engineering, students must contact that college and request a change of major. The College of Engineering cannot respond to any choice of major outside the College of Engineering. Please click on the link for a list of suggested alternative majors.

There is a remote chance that space may become available in a major that filled because students who were offered conditional acceptance into the major failed to complete the entrance-to-major requirements by the end of the pool semester. If that ever happens, the Office of Student Services will notify the students who were denied that major because their cumulative GPA ranked them below the enrollment limit for the major. Students will be notified in order of their ranking for the major when the entrance-to-major process was being carried out. In other words, their cumulative GPA at the beginning of the pool semester will be used. The student's GPA at the end of the pool semester would be used only in cases where additional discrimination is needed.

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