<p>Hi</p>
<p>what would you think about an engineering school where many students are getting high GPA like 3.5 and above?? and the major is Electrical Engineering !! (which is sometimes considered as one of the hardest majors).</p>
<p>a student in the school I am talking about got 4.0 GPA >>his major is electrical engineering!!
p.s: this student has part-time job too :)</p>
<p>What does “many students” mean? And is the 4.0 for all four years?</p>
<p>The way that you posted your question it sounds like you think lesser of this college There are lots of reasons that a student can get a 4.0 in Electrical Engineering such as they are not taking more than 12 credit hours a semester or that they truly work hard to earn their grades. Both my sons (3rd yr & 4th yr) are Electrical Engineer majors . One son has a 3.74 overall gpa and my younger son has a 4.0+ overall gpa. My younger son has to take 15 hours each semester to keep his Presidential Scholarship. They do not have jobs because we want them to focus more on school. This school is a very good Engineering school. So yes a 4.0 is possible in Electrical Engineering.</p>
<p>I have a 4.0 and I don’t think so highly of myself</p>
<p>the school is Illinois Institute Of Technology.
4th year. Taking 14 credits per semester.</p>
<p>I thought it’s too hard to get such GPA while in Engineering school.</p>
<p>The only place in the world where that stat would be truly shocking is Harvey-Mudd. Since its inception, they’ve had 5, yes FIVE students graduate with a 4.0. Most everywhere else it’s a matter of efficiency, smarts and hard work, like any other major.</p>
<p>I can assure you that not all EE majors at IIT have above a 3.5 GPA. Yes there are some outstanding students but there are also ones who struggle and those in between, just like any other university except that the population is biased toward engineering and science and the Math test scores tend to be high.</p>
<p>Hard is not impossible. If someone is getting a 4.0, they deserve congratulations. One data point says nothing of the overall distribution.</p>
<p>I have a good friend who graduated from the number one ece program (at the time) with a 4.0 in four years with a couple grad classes under his belt. He was/is by far the smartest person I’ve ever met, but more importantly he was very disciplined. </p>
<p>While I’m by no means near his level, I model my studying habits after his and it has been paying dividends. I will say though that luck plays a factor, I lucked out with a tough, but phenomenal circuits professor. If I had been stuck with a tough crappy professor for that class (like my mechanics of materials professor) I would have had an exponentially harder time because I would have had to figure out a lot more on my own. Same goes for OChem, I got the one chemistry professor in the department teaching it who cared about pedagogy and it makes a huge difference come test time.</p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong, trying keep a 4.0 gets more and more stressful each semester. You always worry- “this is going to be the class/schedule that brings me down.” I’m constantly internally debating whether I just need to be “good enough” or if I should keep fighting. My main motivation at this point is the reminder of how few jobs there are in my industry and how I don’t want my gpa to be the reason I get overlooked when I have the ability to get all A’s.</p>
<p>It’s definitely possible, he’s just on the far right of a bell curve. Congrats to him.</p>