<p>Look, we all know engineering is a demanding curriculum. But its it like what they say, that engineering students who want to do relatively well are cooped up in their dorms all the time studying hard? Maybe it's my natural anxiety towards stuff I'm unsure about, but Id don't have a lot of contact with engineering students (especially at GT, UT, and Stanford), and I'm starting to think that I may not do so well. First off, I'm taking AP Calc AB now. My grade's been hovering between a C+ and a B, and I'm able to work a bit on it. I wasn't studying all the time due to my job, I only got about 45 mins. before a mjaor test to study. What I'm more concerned about is physics, which I hear kills you in GT due to grade deflation. I'm okay in physics, like I got a B in Physics Honors. Again, didn't work too hard to get that. I'm no genius, and I don't work all that hard right now (will do in college). I got a 700 on the SAT math, 34 in ACT science, and 33 in ACT math. Should I be considering engineering?</p>
<p>You're fine.</p>
<p>Are you going to have a job that's going to take up a lot of your time during college? I'd worry about that more, because an engineering major can be very time-intensive.</p>
<p>You should be fine, but don't expect </p>
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<p>to necessarily be true.</p>
<p>I told myself when I started college, I'd spend a lot less time on my computer. I wound up spending tons more time on it, especially wasting time, since I had a lot more work that required my computer.</p>
<p>Starting grad school, I said I'd buckle down and stop wasting my time playing games and talking on internet forums so much. I still log about 45 minutes a day on Team Fortress 2 and, well, I'm posting in this thread. :(</p>
<p>not at all.
In most college,you will be only required to take some elementary math courses like calculus1-3,linear algebra,differential equations if you are engnineering major.</p>
<p>Honestly,I think SAT/ACT math are really easy. Your SAT/ACT math score doesn't mean anything.</p>
<p>linear algebra my friend is your best hope.</p>
<p>It all depends. I think two things that help you out a lot more than "being a genius" are strong work ethic and time management skills.</p>
<p>Most of the courses don't have ingenuity as a prereq... They are all doable if you put in enough time and hard work. This does not mean that you will be cooped up in your room all day, studying, but I'm not going to lie... on average you will be studying more, maybe even much more, than certain other majors. </p>
<p>You also have a lot more time if you live on campus and don't sleep too much. Even if you need to study a lot during the week, you will almost always have enough time to have fun/party over the weekends. The problem is that most people procrastinate... and in college you tend to that a lot more. I find myself not even starting homework until 10 o' clock at night, sometimes, when I really could have started at 6! After a couple of quarters your time management improves a lot, and you also get used to the rigour. </p>
<p>As an aside, I'm an engineering major and I'm no genius at math. I find many things very tough that others think are easy. But I still get pretty good grades if I put in the time.</p>
<p>SAT isn't really a good indication of engineering capabilities. There are a lot of people at UIUC who has scored over 1400 (Verbal + Math), and yet still flunk out of engineering after their first year. Meanwhile, I know a guy who scored below 600 on math, but was able to transfer into engineering college because he maintained a solid 3.5 in UIUC ECE curriculum.</p>