Am i smart enough for electrical engineering?

<p>i have no programming knowledge, and im good at math and science but not great. I took bio, chem honors, and AP chem, and i got ALL A's for the sciences. (AP chem was pretty easy at our school), but i got a 4 on the ap chem test. for math i took, geo enriched, algebra 2/trig, and precalc honors. i got A's in geo and precalc, but i b's for algebra 2/trig (the class was really hard, and i started giving up). i have 780 math 2, and 760 chem sat score. i havent taken physics yet. the question is, do you guys think i can handle electrical engineering? i have been told that this is probably the hardest engineering major, and i wasnt sure if i can handle it. </p>

<p>There’s only one way to be sure: try it.</p>

<p>A lot of it depends on how motivated you are to make it. You said that you gave up on trigonometry. If you do that with EE classes you find to be hard, then your chances will be reduced.</p>

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<p>Agreed. Not second-guessing your abilities all of the time is also very important. You have to believe in yourself as cheesy as that sounds. Keep your mind thinking forward, avoid dwelling on past mistakes, and you should do fine.</p>

<p>Like the others above me have said, if you have the motivation you can do well. I know I struggled at the beginning as an undergrad in my first math, science, and engineering courses at the college level but my GPA since the beginning of the 2013 calendar year is ~3.8 and only 1 of them has been a non-STEM course.</p>

<p>@EEDawg‌ wow, congratulations. if you dont mind, can you tell me how you were doing in high school? like can u give me some stats if u dont mind.</p>

<p>In high school, I graduated with a 3.29 GPA with a 1920 on my SAT and 29 (I think) on the ACT. I was the classic underachiever and it took about until 2 years after high school before I decided to care about STEM and a year later I wound up studying EE.</p>

<p>My math courses went relatively well, but physics, chemistry, biology, electrical engineering, computer science, etc. were all like foreign languages to me in the beginning.</p>

<p>So yeah, I didn’t even graduate in the top half of my high school class and 4 years later I’m in the top 10% at a top 25 engineering school. It certainly didn’t happen overnight, though.</p>

<p>@EEDawg‌ well congratulations, i can tell that you must be proud of yourself. hope i can accomplish the same.</p>

<p>Students with poor math backgrounds are less likely to succeed in engineering. Your 780 on the Math 2 SAT subject test indicates that your math background is good, so no need to worry. That doesn’t mean that you will necessarily like electrical engineering, but there are no red flags that you need to worry about. </p>

<p>Ya never know until you get to Upper Division. Or at least Physics Electricity/Magnetism and introductory circuits are decent gauges on how you’ll do… If you don’t find a good experience in those classes, I recommend switching to another engineering major that involves less of these topics because if you thought you were good at them in the lower division, upper division is another story because it’s these topics on steroids ~</p>