Why is the process for declaring a major in Course 20 different than other departments?
BE is offering an undergraduate SB program for the first time and it is unknown what the demand for the major will be since a comparable curriculum is not offered at other schools. The physical spaces for the required sophomore/junior level laboratory 20.109 and the junior/senior level laboratory 20.309 are one limitation for the total number of students, but new labs are being built to accommodate more students. An additional consideration is that the enrollment process ensures students have some exposure to the unique educational content in BE before deciding. The decision to have an enrollment process was discussed in many forums at MIT that included current undergraduate students, former undergraduate students, and faculty, and all agreed that it is necessary to have an enrollment process during the initial few years of the program in order to offer a quality educational program. The plan for the enrollment process was developed over a period of about a year by BE in collaboration
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