Opps spelling!!! Stupid sp ck
THANKS IndoBurma!!!
Was also accepted into college of arts and sciences. Did your admissions acceptance SAY PRE-ENGINEERING OR JUST OFFERING ARTS AND SCIENCES? WHICH PRE ENGINEERING FALLS UNDER? TRYING TO FIGURE THAT OUT
lol I don’t think anyone got rejected
My son’s offer is for the “pre-engineering major” in the College of Arts and Sciences: https://www.colorado.edu/pre-engineering/welcome-pre-engineering-program. I don’t think there is any other college that offers this major, Grace!!!
Their stats are discouraging. Sounds like this is a group of students who are at risk not to continue onto engineering, even though the minimum GPA to transfer into the COE is 2.7 (Bs and Cs), stats from 2016:
539 = new students starting in Pre-Engineering
209 = students who completed required courses and were evaluated at least once for IUT admission to engineering (through Spring 2017)
140 = students who successfully transferred to engineering (through Spring 2017)
Any advice or experience, please share!
Thanks it can be discouraging BUT not if thats what you really want. Out of thst number there was also a great many that did PRE for the first year then transfered in, some of the ones that didn’t changed degree fields which is also not uncommon. We have been in touch with school and if YOU want it THIS IS NOT A BAD THING. GOOD LUCK TO ALL. we also heard this year was an extremely high pool of kids applying to engineering not only at this school but at others as well. I was accepted into other BIG schools direct admitt but comparing the programs it is the same as engineering 2 at other schools it appears
Pre-engineering students can live in the Engineering dorms.
My daughter was also admitted into pre-engineering. Don’t worry about the stats, lots of kids decide engineering isn’t for them, and move to a different major. The two students I know who were accepted into pre-engineering, sucessfully moved to engineering at the end of their freshman year. Your child can take up to two years to move into engineering. He or she can also retake a class if failed in their first year. Strategically, if your child hasn’t taken calculus yet, it may be better for him or her to take general chemistry 1 & 2 (requires a year of chemistry in high school, or else need to take intro to chemistry first), and save the calculus-based physics for later. The chemistry classes will require labs, though. Also, kids can take the A&S calc 1 and 2. I’ve heard it’s slightly less rigorous than the engineering calculus. The kids I know who’ve taken that route said it hasn’t hurt them in their majors ( engineering computer science/ programming).
yeah i got into pre engineering as well, most likely gonna switch tho.
Does anyone know exactly what the McNeill academic program is?
Thank you, Grace!!! and friskypalette for your input. Makes me feel better to know pre-engineering is still a viable path to an engineering degree at CU, although I didn’t mention that my son also was offered admission directly into the College of Engineering at Univ of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, early action. So it will be hard to turn that down since he would starting with the engineering students there. Just disappointed about CU Boulder because I was hoping it would be a good alternate to UIUC, but the offers are not equivalent… Thoughts?
Also remember how tough it is to graduate with a degree in engineering, just because your accepted doesnt mean you’ll finish. Examples: I graduated in 4 years in EE with only 30% of my starting class. My DD graduated in 5 years in ChemE, her friend will start her 8th year in ChemE in the Fall (now that is perseverance!). Having said that it’s more about nose to the grindstone for most students than anything else to get through the program.
Accepted (1/17):
Computer Science (BS) - School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
SAT: 1490 (790M)
SAT 2: 800 Phys, 790M
GPA: 4.07W (upward trend, all A+ 1st semester of senior year)
9 APs (Physics 1, English Lang, Spanish Lang, Microecon, Macroecon, Calc AB, Stats, Chemistry, Comp Sci)
Many extracurriculars: programmed since 11 (worked with 7 languages), developer work experience, founder of own company (can’t go into detail), 300+ hours of community service, developer of community service app, MUN debating (awards and attended international conferences), volunteer as a teacher for 5th graders (programming), etc.
Accepted on the 18th
Applied for AE, got in for physics
GPA: 87.4 UW, 89.6 W
SAT: 1390 (710 M)
OOS: NY
Lots of ECs, work experience, over 120 volunteer hours, good recs.
Also received a $25,000 CU Boulder Chancellor’s Achievement Scholarship. (top 25% of admitted nonresident class)
@CU123 Dear lord - 8 years for an engineering degree? This worries me.
Part of that is due to the small ChemE dept so they don’t offer all courses each semester and a C (no C-‘s allowed) is required for most all the engineering courses to pass. It was tough when I was there, and even tougher now.
CU Boulder is becoming exceptionally more competitive for admission across the board… It will only go up in the rankings…
Does CU typically wait until very close to April 1 to issue all their Regular Decisions? Any chance they get some of these done in February?
I haven’t gotten my decision yet, but maybe you can chance me.
GPA:~3.0 (strong upward trend 77 average freshman year to a 96 average senior year)
ACT: 25
State: NY
Intended Major: Double major in Philosophy and Economics
Hooks: URM, upward trend, and first gen.
EC’s:
Treasurer to our schools rotary club, literary club, volunteering at the local library, asst. coach for modified volleyball,
all county choir, tutor in business law and history, student of distinction, high-honors, economic research for a small liberal arts college in a neighboring town, and Cornell upward bound.
I know my ACT is in the 25th percentile (or somewhere around there) and that my GPA is considerably low, but I’d like to think that my URM status, the fact I am a first gen college student, and that there is an apparent upward trend gives at least a little wiggle room