<p>I've been thinking about transferring to another university, and I was wondering if anyone knows of some good electrical engineering programs that are willing to take sutdents with a 2.0 engineering GPA?</p>
<p>...a 2.0 GPA from what kind of school? A 2.0 GPA from MIT is going to open more doors than a 2.0 GPA from a community college or something.</p>
<p>What's prompting your transfer? What don't you like about the school you're currently at, so we can know not to recommend schools that are similar?</p>
<p>2.0? GPAs below that will put u in probation at many colleges...</p>
<p>There's nothing wrong with this school I go to right now. Last year, I was one of those students that kind of just picked schools almost at random. I only applied to 5 schools for engineering all out of state, and I got into all of them(UW-Madison,Michigan State, UM-Twin Cities,Northeastern, and Ohio University). I chose OU because they offered the most, even though the others offered me decent packages. </p>
<p>To be honest I really wanted to go to UW-Madison, but my family convinced me not to because of the cost even though I would've been given a loan to cover attending. Anyways, I want to transfer to a cheaper school or one that will offer money, and also start over because I really messed up this year.</p>
<p>jamminitman:
Can you tell us anything about OU's engineering? My son is looking at that school for EE. </p>
<p>Sorry it didn't work out for you.</p>
<p>The EE courses aren't too difficult, if you study/ask for help from the professor or students. Freshman year, the classes you should take classes EE 101, EE 102, EE 103, and this computer programming class CS 210 or ET181 if you have programming experience. Anyways, the classes here that will kill you are the math classes. So many of us have to repeat a Calc course because the professor was terrible.</p>
<p>Is there anything in specific you wanted to know about EE here?</p>
<p>How did you find the social scene? Too wild? I guess that is one of my concerns - being at a school with a bit (cough) of a reputation for partying and taking a difficult courseload.Is it easy to find kids who are fairly studious? </p>
<p>Can you take that Calc course with anyone else? Are most of the profs good? What size classes? </p>
<p>Sorry for so many questions.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I'm not going to lie. Getting alcohol/drugs isn't too difficult to get here. However, this is pretty much at any college. Anyhow, the social scene here isn't that bad. There's tons of people walking to parties on the weekends, the drunks stumbling all over the place, and sometimes it can get a little noisy with all the people walking about.</p>
<p>There are tons of studious kids here. The library always has people there studying or doing homework, and it's very quiet. </p>
<p>I will warn you though the engineers here follow that motto of work hard, play hard. So, quite a few go and party on the weekends, but then become serious and study/do homework during the week.</p>
<p>Yes, you can take a Cal course with different professors. You can switch professors during the first few weeks of a quarter. </p>
<p>Some professors are good, while others aren't so good. Last quarter, I had a great Cal teacher, but then he only had his Masters. This quarter, my Calc profesor is useless, he's goes straight out of the book, and whenever you don't know the answer to his questions he gives you this look that makes you feel absolutely dumb. I also got lucky and had the good EE 102 professor last quarter. He was willing to help you to go over what you did wrong, and work with you until you understood things. He also set up study sessions for every test. The other professor apparently went straight out of the book, and only confused you more when you went to his office hours.</p>
<p>Most EE/Calc class sizes are between 20 - 40 people, while intro science classes that you have to take like Chemistry are around 160 students or more.</p>
<p>If you have any other questions, ask them I don't mind.</p>
<p>jamminitman:
Thanks so much for your thoughts. Do you think you really will transfer out?</p>
<p>I really don't know right now. I've been playing with the idea of transfering since about January, and I'm in between right now.</p>