<p>Hi there guys. Im hoping to go to Iowa State because of their aerospace engineering program</p>
<p>ACT=25
GPA = 3.1/4
I have had a part time job at Jewel-osco for 2 years, been promoted once.
class rank is bottom third towards the 50% mark.</p>
<p>Will I be able to get in? Also I want to go into AFROTC.</p>
<p>it might be easier to go undeclared then see if engineering fits for you. I’m going to warn you, engineering is TOUGH and requires a lot better study habits than most people care to admit. People will go out thursdays and seem like they will be having a blast around you while you are studying. It sucks, i know.</p>
<p>AFROTC im sure you can get in, but keep in mind you probably wont get a scholarship</p>
<p>yes I know. My grades and GPA dont really show it but ive really picked it up the last year in highschool. Ive changed a lot since ive entered highschool and I really want Aerospace. Do you think I will be accepted into their program though? I hate how Iowa State doesnt ask for an application essay. Its as if your purely a number to them.</p>
<p>Iowa State is more of a school that believes people the benefit of the doubt. Getting into the engineering program only requires a 2.5 gpa coming in. HOWEVER, it is so tough that majority of the engineering community coming in will drop out and switch.</p>
<p>Otherwords, they will let you in, but its up to you to keep yourself in.</p>
<p>again, i’m forewarning you on how tough it is. get ready to lose sleep and weekends for your classes upon sophomore year and up, a 3.0 gpa is the gold standard for getting jobs in your field and to do that without repeating classes, you must get A’s in your blowoff classes (psych, english, humanities, gen chem) without it get prepared to have your gpa plummet.</p>
<p>i tell this to everyone since no one believes how tough it is for the classes. Its the highest paying majors, but its also the hardest to get.</p>
<p>i just realized, sorry for the bad typos, dont really pay attention when i type</p>
<p>I got in with a 3.17 and a 24ACT. I was taking all AP/IB classes though and my rank was upper half. I was also on FIRST Robotics.</p>
<p>But yeah I think you should be able to get in. If you’ve got the passion for engineering you’ll be able to do it. Aerospace is awesome…</p>
<p>yes I definitely do have a passion for everything aviation/astronomy. Every time a plane flies over I stare at it. Something about aviation just captures me. I think its one of those things you are born with.</p>
<p>Im going into AFROTC to try and become a pilot. It is worrying that this might kill my GPA since that is a big factor in determining whether or not I get a flight slot or not.</p>
<p>But like you said, if I have a passion for it, I should be able to do it. Im taking a physics class right now, and I love it. I actually ENJOY doing the homework, haha! I find it really interesting that you can find out how fast something is going or how high up it is with just knowing a few variables.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>neptune, admission is determined strictly by your RAI. If you miss the threshhold it is possible to appeal - this is the only circumstance under which they consider other factors than those used to compute RAI.</p>
<p>marc936 you offer some excellent advice!</p>
<p>just to reiterate how hard engineering is…</p>
<p>physics 221, </p>
<p>1200 entered in, mass majority are engineers with AP physics in high school, typically your best and brightest (top 20%) in their high schools, past their initial weed out with relative ease (calc 1, not much of a weed out but it is for a lot of other majors) </p>
<p>800 left by midterms, yep, 1/3 dropped out of the class after taking only 1 exam</p>
<p>final time hits around, those 800 students originally in it that took the exams, over 50% failed it, by that i mean the class average was 58.2%</p>
<p>now, i’m lucky enough to scrape by that class with an A-, but that was no easy task. I remember 2 of the questions that just raped everyone in the test.</p>
<p>“A ladder is a 45 degree angle on the wall with a mass of …, a man stands on the ladder and his weight is …, with no force on the wall wall, the man goes 70% up the wall and the ladder falls, what is coefficient of static friction the floor gives?” all you know is coeff= mu * N, derive how to figure it out</p>
<p>and</p>
<p>“your in a planet ---- in radius with a gravity of ----- at the surface, how much speed is required to escape the planets orbit” (heres the thing, no equation is given to figure it out, you have to derive the speed yourself using potential energy, that also you have to derive, and no, mgh is not potential energy in this case)</p>
<p>what sucks about it too is there is no partial credit, either get it right or get a 0 on that question</p>
<p>I would be willing to study my ass off. I find that kind of stuff interesting a lot of the time anyways. I dont even know what deriving is…lol.</p>
<p>hello </p>
<p>could you tell me if ive got a shot at iowa state…not the engineering program. </p>
<p>OOS
3.3-3.4 gpa
21 ACT
no class rank</p>
<p>4 years of math
4 years of science
4 years of history
4 years of english
2 years of spanish </p>
<p>what are my chances?</p>
<p>I am a senior in M.E. at ISU and I am going to warn you like everyone else, but engineering is not easy. I started out for first 3 semesters in Aero E but switched to M.E. to keep my options open. If I were you I would go into undeclared engineering and make sure that engineering is the best fit for you. 95% of classes in first two years will count for any engineering, however with Aero and M.E. there were a few differences so be careful if you do decide that route. It is real easy to say you are going to study your ass off, but I feel like for engineering (especially Aero) your heart really needs to be in it, because there are plenty of times where you will want to just give up. </p>
<p>BigmDig, I am pretty sure you have a good shot. GPA is decent, however if possible I would try to get ACT score up to around 25ish (almost guaranteed then) </p>
<p>As for you Marc936, I agree that 221 and 222 are very tough courses, but they are designed that way because they are your first true problem solving courses. If you think that 221 is tough, just wait until you get into the 400 level courses. They are not easy (sorry but I had to warn ya)</p>
<p>yeah i know, physics 221 was tough simply because i never went through physics, after a while it got easy. im going through diff eq and calc 3 now and it seems like a breeze.</p>
<p>my courses weened down a lot, i had 20-21 credits until now, because its getting to harder courses, biochem 301, thermo, etc etc, now its weening down to 12-15 simply because i knew the rest are going to kick me in the balls</p>