Chances of switching to engineering?

ihatethese

I'm a soon to be second year theoretical physics student but im not really liking it and would like to transfer to first year engineering , i know I would have to pay tuition fees and all but im just wondering what are my chances of actually getting in when i got 475 points in the leaving and the points this year were 470?.

Raspberry Fileds

ihatethese wrote: »

I'm a soon to be second year theoretical physics student but im not really liking it and would like to transfer to first year engineering , i know I would have to pay tuition fees and all but im just wondering what are my chances of actually getting in when i got 475 points in the leaving and the points this year were 470?.

Afaik, you won't have any trouble transferring. Gonna cost you €5k, though, and you'll have to pay it this year.

Raspberry Fileds

ihatethese wrote: »

I'm a soon to be second year theoretical physics student but im not really liking it and would like to transfer to first year engineering , i know I would have to pay tuition fees and all but im just wondering what are my chances of actually getting in when i got 475 points in the leaving and the points this year were 470?.

Out of interest, did you need a HEAR/DARE points reduction to get into TP?

ihatethese

Think itl be 7500 altogether including student contribution, looks like il be calling into the bank asking for a loan. Yeah i got in on a 25 point reduction with the HEAR scheme as it dropped to 500 last year.

Raspberry Fileds

I presume your rationale for changing is sound. Engineering is effectively five years long so, assuming Student Contribution doesn't change (which is not a good assumption, IMO), you'll have to pay another €3k at the end. Whatever, I hope it works out.

As an aside, this might interest you: since 2005, Theoretical Physics in TCD has alternated between increasing and decreasing and has done so by an average of thirty-five points each year!





Ofc, this year it rose again to 550.

amymak

ihatethese wrote: »

I'm a soon to be second year theoretical physics student but im not really liking it and would like to transfer to first year engineering , i know I would have to pay tuition fees and all but im just wondering what are my chances of actually getting in when i got 475 points in the leaving and the points this year were 470?.

You should ask if there's any possibility of getting into SF Engineering. I'm going into my third year of engineering and I just looked up the module list for TP, and they're fairly similar.

In Engineering, there are two maths modules, a mechanics module and a programming module which you have.

You don't have chemistry, electrical engineering and experimental methods and the teamwork modules. However, chemistry or experimental methods aren't very relevant in for the rest of the course and electronics in second year doesn't really assume any previous knowledge, and I'm sure you did some of it in physics before.

There's a good chance they won't go for it, but there's no harm in giving it a shot anyway. It would save you a considerable amount of money and a year out of your life if they went for it.