<p>My current grades at a CC:</p>
<p>First Semester:</p>
<p>English Composition I - W
Intro. Statistics - F
Macroeconomics I - C
Gen. Chem I - D</p>
<p>Second semester:</p>
<p>None (medical reasons)</p>
<p>Third Semester:</p>
<p>Western Civilization Renaissance to Present - A
English Composition I - A
Calculus I - A
General Psychology - A</p>
<p>Fourth Semester:</p>
<p>English Composition II - A
Physics with Calculus I - A
Calculus II - A</p>
<p>Summer:</p>
<p>Linear Algebra - A
Calculus III - A</p>
<p>Currently taking:</p>
<p>Spanish I
Physics with Calcuclus II
Differential Equaqtions
Introduction to Philosophy</p>
<p>Do you think it would be a good idea to go into Engineering? I appreciate any feedbacks and insights you guys can give me.</p>
<p>I am just curious, what is the reason for your significantly poorer performance the first semester?</p>
<p>Just didn’t feel like it?</p>
<p>Save didn’t ask for an excuse, they asked for a reason. An excuse is an attempt to avoid responsibility, a reason is an explanation of why it happened. In this case, a reason is desirable because it lets the advice-givers know if it is likely to happen again.</p>
<p>That first semester not withstanding, I see no reason why you shouldn’t go into engineering if you desire to.</p>
<p>Yes. your upward trend after the first semester is ridiculously good, if i was in admissions i would admit you JUST because of the As in Calc 2 and Linear Alg specifically.</p>
<p>Something tells me the medical reasons where there your first semester before you knew they were there. And if not, just let admissions assume that they were. Straight A’s in Calculus and Physic and you think anybody is going to care about your first semester?</p>
<p>MomfromKC - my only concern is if it WASN’T medical. If they were, and that has been addressed, then great. If there were motivational or disciplinary problems, the medical “wake-up” might be temporary - hopefully it isn’t, but I have seen people get that kind of motivation for a year or two but then fade in the stretch. The OP needs to know what is going on, understand what is keeping him going, and know how to maintain that. This is not an admissions issue, but rather making sure that he will graduate successfully once admitted.</p>
<p>You’ve demonstrated that you got what it takes to go into engineering. Don’t let your first semester grades deter you from doing what you want to do.</p>
<p>I wasn’t questioning you cosmicfish. I was questioning the OP. Clearly his grades have been just fine since the medial thing. So why does he even question if he can do it? Does he want to do it or is somebody pushing him? If you don’t love it, go get a degree in finance - you will probably make more money. If you love it - go for it. Why question a string of A’s that long? That is a full year with a very heavy summer. Of course I don’t see any actual engineering class on here, not even an “Intro To” and I don’t see mention of a major, and I don’t see where he has retaken Chemistry. So I am wondering why the question was really posted. If the OP needs strangers on the internet to tell him that Engineering is the key to a perfect life even if he finds it yucky - sorry! That is not how it works. So why did you really ask OP? What is your real question?</p>
<p>I won’t go into much details on some things (I already made the mistake of posting my whole transcript). </p>
<p>My “real” question is if the first semester GPA will matter in the long run since it’s bringing my GPA down a lot. Will employers and engineering colleges look at my trend and/or overall GPA? Because my overall GPA currently does not reflect my full ability.</p>
<p>OP: As long as you get above a 3.5 overall, no one is going to care about it at all. If you have at least a 3.0 only a very very few are going to care. If you are over 3.0 not counting that first semester, same deal. When you really come down to it, you grades would have to get pretty low over all before someone is going to care about a bad first semester.</p>