Engineering soph @ Princeton - too late for IB?

I am a sophomore electrical and computer engineering student at Princeton University. My GPA is 3.75/4.00; and I have numerous summers worth of experience in machine learning/computational physics research.

Is it too late for me to choose IB as a career? And if not, what steps can I take to make it be available as an option?

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Why tf would you want to go into IB if you have the chance to work in AI / ML which seems universally agreed to be the future of a lot of tech advancement in the upcoming decades? Seriously, if you like what you're doing in your major - don't switch. If you hate it, consider it? You're at Princeton and literally can do whatever you want at a top target like that.

 

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