<p>Hi, i'm a freshman warren engineer. Many have told me that engineers typically take 5 years to graduate instead of 4. However, there seems to be plenty of 4-year plans handed out by engineering departments. So are the 4 year plans generally extremely hard to complete or people end up switching majors a lot?</p>
<p>They expected you to take 4 class (16 units) if you wanted to graduate in four years. For me, I rather stay at school another year than taking 4 classes at same time lol</p>
<p>^Most students take 4 classes every quarter.</p>
<p>Well i’m planning on going to grad school, so taking less than 4 classes will probably help my GPA. However, will grad schools notice that it took you longer to graduate and lower your chances?</p>
<p>4, 4 unit classes a quarter isn’t hard. Some people take 20 units. It’s because all 4 unit classes are not created equal. Example is sociology 1 (omg easy) vs humanities 1 (an A is practically unheard of). I say just try to take 16 units a quarter and go for 4 years, and if you fail a class, drop or whatever, then you can fall back on 5 years. Don’t go into your freshman year with the attitude that it’ll take 5 years (it might, but not for sure)</p>
<p>@AndrewL</p>
<p>I also have no idea why you would want to pay that much more money.</p>
<p>plus don’t forget being an engineer in warren college helps a bunch, knocks out a bunch of GEs. all other warren students that aren’t engineers get about 6 more GE classes for their PofCs compared to the Area Studies you have to complete.
A lot of warren engineers I know are going to be able to finish in 4 years, most of them take summer classes as well to cut down on their regular school year load.</p>
<p>Thanks for the help. I was planning on 4 years anyways. I guess if i end up dropping a class or two, it’ll just be an extra quarter. And i do plan on taking summer classes at a CC (:</p>