<p>Does anyone know what courses I need to take if I want to do the Emory joint engineering program ?</p>
<p>And I am planning on doing both the business and engineering tracks. I know there are requirements for business. But will the course load be too difficult (in terms of the average person) if I do business/engineering requirements??? </p>
<p>To be honest. I wanted to do engineering in undergrad and business (MBA) after. However, I was rejected to most of the engineering schools I wanted to go to.</p>
<p>So I might plan on transferring if my plan doesnt work out.</p>
<p>Thanks for the help!+-</p>
<p>I was told that the 3:2 program is being discontinued at a tour today–you might want to check on that. I’m not an engineering-student or an emory-student, but in general, neither engineering or business programs are for “average people,” neither are graduate/professional degrees. I’ve heard that it’s (or was) a difficult program to get into…</p>
<p>Did you not get into Tech? You should/should have probably started at Tech (if you applied or got in). Because that (3-2) program is tough, and you have to complete all of those requirements and the GERs in 2-3 years and maintain a solid GPA to be admitted to Tech. You may essentially be robbed of the opportunity to take some of the awesome humanities and social sciences (engaging in the hearts of the liberal arts here) courses, therefore defeating the purpose of attending here. Then, as tough as many of the Emory courses are, the Tech students of your intended field will be ahead of you b/c they have already been exposed to engineering courses at Tech and therefore know what to expect. Going to Tech may be a tough transition. However, the undergraduate business school here is extremely solid. I’d recommend that. Perhaps be a science major if you want to. We have many strong depts. in the sciences.</p>
<p>I think you would have had to take gen. chem series (I’ve compared our tests to Tech’s gen. chem, and ours is tougher, mainly b/c of the short answer/multi. choice hybrid and the tricks they throw. This is despite the fact that Tech claims to combine to semester’s worth of chem into one. In reality, it’s a joke, it’s curved, but many still do very poorly. No curve here, but students still do better), gen. physics series (normally easier than Tech’s), and 4-5 semesters of math (normally easier than classes at Tech, but highly dependent on prof. Some profs. are really easy, while you may have 1-2 that are extremely difficult per semester). Maybe bio (but I don’t think so), which will probably be difficult again, as of this upcoming fall (141 will generally have the harder line-up of profs., while 142 is easier and the tests are semi-standardize. Such ease may disappear in the upcoming year though). </p>
<p>How’d you enjoy that tour aigiqinf? How about all this construction? The Heat? lol. It can get annoying, but it often ends up worth it in the end.</p>
<p>aiginif, I’ll def check into it thanks.</p>
<p>bernie, thanks for the info. Do you think it may be a better solution to transfer out of Emory completely if i want to do engineering (like transfer out after freshman year)?? My plan is to take the pre reqs for the bschool at emory and also take the engineering requirements required for other schools (like i know GTech has some transfer requirements and Cornell/ Upenn does too). That way, if i decide I want to do business, I can apply for goizueta.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Dude, do you want to go to an engineering school or are chasing a prestigious school with an engineering program. Either way, Tech is the best option out of those if you are dead-set on being an engineer. I would recommend you transfer there if you are in good standing after freshmen year. Tech is really tough (so is Cornell from my understanding, but there is more inflation), but it prepares you very well, plus it has a undergrad management school which may indeed be a fall-back for those who wanted to be engineers, but it’s pretty good. If you really want to do engineering, please don’t chase the “names”. And you should know that people know Tech is extremely well-respected as it ranks extremely high in most of the engineering programs offered and is known for being more rigorous (heavier workload than most top 20s and lower inflation) than most institutions.<br>
I just hope you see something else in Cornell and Penn other than the names (maybe smaller, though I think Cornell and Tech are comparable in size. In fact Cornell is larger. And you can pursue liberal arts options if you want at these institutions). And Penn might be tough to transfer into. I’d imagine that when you think of Penn, you immediately think “Wharton!”(probably misspelled). </p>
<p>If you decide Business, Emory is well-respected in this area. I say, don’t hassle so much transferring out unless you absolutely hate it here for w/e reason. If you want engineering, go Tech sophomore year. The prestige of the Ivies shouldn’t really give you a leg up if you do undergrad. engineering. You want the best preparation/most rigorous/most comprehensive program which is Tech. I would also consider transferring to Berkeley (I wouldn’t recommend Stanford or MIT b/c that may be a complete waste of application money).</p>
<p>Even if the 3+2 program still exists (some of my friends wanted to do this when they first came to emory, but opted out due to sheer classload and/or difficulty)
I don’t think you can actually do business + engineering in 3+2. I mean sure, it’s possible, but considering Emory’s business school is set as 2 year program (in junior and senior years), and in the 3+2, you’d be going to georgia tech for B.S. after your junior year, you would either have to overload like crazy, or get into business school 1 year early (which means you need to have around 30 ap credits)
Your GPA would suffer a lot both ways, since Emory’s business school is curved (yes it’s average of 3.15 but then average accepted gpa of Emory college student to the business school is around 3.5 ~ 3.55, so we’re talking realistically 2.9~3.0 average GPA difficulty here if you stayed in just emory college). And Georgia Tech’s engineering is notoriously (well I guess any top engineering school is hard) with average gpa of around 2.7.
Again, if you are not thinking of going to a grad/professional school, and you have enough AP credit hours, I guess it’s possible. But the sheer amount of work you have to put in JUST to be able to do this would hurt your social life.</p>
<p>The graduating average at Tech is about 3.07 which better than it used to be, however, this is admittedly inflated by those in the management school, whereas ours is probably slightly deflated by those in the B-School. You need to specify that the engineering programs are in the 2.? ranges. I believe the same could be said for Emory students in the sciences, however, we can get inflation by taking easier GERs (I normally take the harder ones), but the course averages for orgo (at least two sections are harder than Tech), bio (harder than Tech), gen. chem (harder than Tech), and either of the physics courses (intro or gen.) are in the 2s (normally 2.5-2.7). Upperlevel courses in NBB (like 301) actually need to be curved to a B- “numerical” average (2.7) which indicates that the average gpa in the course is probably lower due to any Cs, Ds, or Fs, so I’d venture a guess of 2.4-2.6, same for biochemistry. Point is, both Tech and Emory are hard for many people. I believed people are deceived when they see that Emory students graduate with an average of 3.38, and Tech 3.07. Tech doesn’t have real humanities though. It’s primarily science. I’ll mention again that many science majors (or people) in general screw up in social science courses, many of which are far from easy, b/c unlike Tech, they expect you to right really well. Being a science major here can be brutal. And since you are not graded for HW (or shall I say suggested exercises) for many classes, you most motivate yourself practice or fail, a difference between Tech and Emory. At least Tech gives a more obvious incentive. It’s two different styles of education/teaching I guess. However, the accessibility to learning resources here is outstanding, which could also contribute to differences in GPAs between us.</p>
<p>Also, intro. classes don’t curve like they do at Tech. The best you’ll get here is a 1-2 point curve if they are feeling generous, which they often don’t. Luckily, you have to take gen. physics to transfer to Tech. And this is one of the few classes that is normally curved (though Roth for phys. 2 did not curve as much as profs. did in the past. She simply curved one exam 10 points, and there were no more curves for the course).</p>
<p>Just a heads up on your future coursework here. </p>
<p>As for the B-school curve. Sounds exactly like the curve that the Law school has (read this in some article). The Law school curves so that the average is 3.15.</p>
<p>Wow, I may just stick to the business track after all. </p>
<p>Actually, since business starts in junior year at Emory, would this be a better plan? Take requirements needed for engineering transfer freshman year (and apply for transfer). If I dont get into the transfer school, I’ll take business requirements and apply for bschool in Emory.</p>
<p>PS. I plan on going into graduate school after, if this is any useful information lol.</p>
<p>Thanks agian</p>
<p>Yeah, maybe start off freshman year with with your math course (doesn’t matter if you have AP credit, they will want some college level math on that app.), and perhaps chem. or physics (maybe both, but this can be brutal because none of the chem. professors are easy). Throw in w/e level econ. you are at (start at intermediate if you have AP, this will challenge you better if you have the right prof.) to cover your a** just in case you don’t get into your transfer and decide to do undergrad. business. As for your grad. school plans. You’re fine no matter which track you go. Both the B-school and fields of science offer an array of research opportunities which can be handed to you if you just ask or do a little networking. And the coursework should prepare if you apply yourself. Good luck in making your decision.</p>