Should I switch my major from engineering to finance

Hello, I am an incoming engineering student at purdue university(which is a top engineering school but a bad business school), planning to study industrial engineering. However, through my entire high school career, I was interested in finance but sort of got forced to study engineering and to be honest, I thought that if I don't get into a target school for finance, I thought that I wouldn't be able to get a good job. I was really stupid at the time of applying and regret deeply applying all engineering schools.  The problem that I am in is that purdue is a target school for top engineering/defense companies and it's even a semi target for tech. Its business school however is terrible, should I just stick to engineering and recruit for finance(or even try going into banking even though it's super difficult from a school like purdue) or should I be trying to switch my major to finance even though purdue business is terrible compared to its engineering program. I was at a super competitive high school and did well academically (4.4 weighted gpa, 1520 SAT) and I'm a little bit of a prestige whore and purdue engineering is sort of prestigious but purdue business isnt prestigious. I don't exactly know what to do, I was thinking to transfer to a top business school from purdue engineering after my first year as well. I am super nervous and I feel as though I ruined my life because I was an idiot whilst applying to college. What should I do? I would love your feedback as you guys are professionals and have great  experiences to draw from :) 

Thank you for your feedback! 

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There's a noticeable uptick in non finance students taking up spots in IB. The general consensus from what I can gather is that being a STEM major indicates a higher base line IQ. Theoretically you should get more opportunities at the cost of more difficult classes and less free time. 

Echoing Jim Simons "I like to say that you can teach a physicist finance, but you can't teach a finance person physics."

 

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