<p>I was just wondering how hard it is to keep a good GPA in the engineering department, specifically EE.</p>
<p>i wanna know because my other choice is UCSD and i keep hearing that it's pretty difficult just to maintain above a 3.0 there.</p>
<p>It's hard, at least for me. I right now have a 2.8 GPA...and it's going down thanks to the incompetence of the physics dept.</p>
<p>i echo redski's hardships. I'm a BMEE (BME plus one EE class every semester) and I had a 3.2 last semester (1st semester freshman year), but this semester is extremely hard and I'm not sure if i'll be able to get a 3.0. Fortunately, VSoE offers a lot of support and all my engineering teachers have been very approachable.</p>
<p>all thanks to two teachers you should avoid should you come here: Gould for PHYS-151 and Mayeda for any EE class.</p>
<p>Well, I have a good GPA, but certainly no one can accuse the school of engineering over grade inflation :) People around here really have to work hard for their A/A-</p>
<p>Plus the G.E. courses imho are tough grade wise, where sometimes D's and F's are part of the standard grade curve (i.e., a certain percentage of the class <em>will</em> get D or F). In major engineering classes at least the grades are pretty distributed along A/B/C lines.</p>
<p>For all the complaining about marshall's grade curve I don't think its particularly worse than engineering.</p>
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teachers you should avoid should you come here: Gould for PHYS-151
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Add Johnson to that list too for PHYS-151.
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G.E. courses imho are tough grade wise, where sometimes D's and F's are part of the standard grade curve (i.e., a certain percentage of the class <em>will</em> get D or F). In major engineering classes at least the grades are pretty distributed along A/B/C lines.
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I should add to that statement that the toughest course any student will probably have to take is WRIT-140. That class is such a downer on your GPA.</p>
<p>thanks for the heads up guys</p>