<p>490 CR, 650 Math, 540 Writing, 9 essay SAT(have only taken it once).</p>
<p>3.33 GPA unweighted</p>
<p>Plan to take 2 AP courses and 4 dual credit courses as a senior.</p>
<p>Trying to do the Dual Degree engineering program, then transferring to Clemson from Furman.</p>
<p>Also, does anyone know the difficulty of the Dual Degree program? It states you need MTH 151 and 160, CHM 110 and 210, PHY-111, 112, 311, 312, 321, 322, and 331, with a GPA of 2.6 to be certified to it.</p>
<p>But if I do this in 3 year liberal art program, I would get a BS in liberal arts from Furman and Clemson, and doing this would give me a solid educational foundation to pursue my engineering studies at Clemson.</p>
<p>So now, is it worth the money to pursue Furman for the liberal art studies, or would I be better off going straight into Clemson?</p>
<p>If you are doing engineering, you should go to Clemson. I have heard of few students actually pull off the 3-2 dual degree program as planned</p>
<p>Plus you’ll get exposure to engineering right away which is important to see if you even want to major in this. If you want to be an engineer, Clemson is where you should go. If you don’t want to be an engineer and just want an engineering degree, go for Furman.</p>
<p>Plus, Clemson is cheaper</p>
<p>(Just my thoughts as an engineering student at Clemson)</p>
<p>Good point. I am thinking about a double major in analytic math and some sort of engineering(stuck between computer and electrical). Furman’s 53k/year without scholarships really impacts many families in South Carolina, including mine. </p>
<p>And my brother is a freshman at Clemson right now, and said of all his classes, physics was his hardest. He has taken Calc 2 and Calc 3 too, which made me double take all of those physics classes required in the dual degree.</p>
<p>Even still, as time goes by and I talk to my GC more, I will still consider the Furman dual degree, but focus more on Clemson.</p>
<p>And thanks for being the information-guy for prominent South Carolinian colleges and universities.</p>
<p>It really depends from person to person, for me physics was easy at Clemson and Calc 2 was my hard class</p>
<p>Another thing to consider is that transferring schools isn’t going to be an easy task socially as well. Also a math degree at Clemson isn’t bad either. Going to Clemson for the last 2 years also gives you a smaller window to get internships and co-op experience (where you alternate 2-3 terms of work and school) without stretching your graduation time. Experience is going to be important if you are looking for an engineering job. Lastly if you are thinking of going to any grad school as well, I wouldn’t pay for Furman if you can’t afford it. It’s not worth it.</p>
<p>Sorry, I’ll get off the Furman board now. Message me if you have any more questions!</p>
<p>I’d mostly agree with what pierre said… to me it doesn’t make sense to go to Furman for engineering when there are much better schools for that pretty close (and cheaper). However, Furman’s physics and chemistry departments are very strong (and hard).</p>
<p>I am a rising senior physics major at Furman. Three people my year are doing the dual degree engineering program–two and Clemson and one at Georgia Tech.</p>
<p>The required courses are doable with the needed GPA, but they are not easy by any means. The small size of the physics department promotes a tight knit community among the professors and students. </p>
<p>As far as the dual degree engineering program: I cannot offer my personal advice. However, one of the adjunct physics professors taught in an engineering department for over 30 years and is very opinionated on the physics vs. engineering debate (his phd is in physics). His word of advice to me is to stick with physics. While an engineer is almost always able to solve a problem better and faster than a physics major, he can only solve a problem he has been taught before. Engineering gives you the tools to reproduce answers. Physics teaches you to find your own. That is the number one selling point of physics vs. engineering. </p>
<p>At Furman many students come to physics planning to do dual degree but opt out after three years. You’ll see why if you join us.</p>
<p>Feel free to ask me any other questions regarding Furman physics, math or chemistry.</p>