I was admitted to CU for mechanical engineering and am strongly considering attending since I got the presidential scholarship and it is affordable. However, I am a bit worried about being distracted by the incredible social life in Boulder. I have high stats and I tend to understand math/science subjects extremely well, but I am also an avid backpacker/climber/outdoorsman and am worried that the mountains will lure me away. Furthermore, I do like to party and I understand that CU is pretty wild. Any current engineering students: how distracting does Boulder get? I don’t want to go there and fail out.
Since you have not gotten an answer from a current student: I taught as an adjunct in Chem E and talk to local CU students, (my son’s friends) and there are a lot of serious engineering students in Boulder. Check out the Honors Engineering dorm, Andrews Hall and the Spanish speaking engineering living group. Those groups are good support systems for engineering majors, but they have separate application process to get into those dorms. You may be able to transfer into this or get in if you call CU about this, and tell them this is a decision point, having support from other serious students at CU Boulder, since its known as a “party school”. . There are other “serious student” dorms as well, they may find you a spot? College of Music, and Arts and Sciences have these type of dorms. They do tend to segregate students by college in these living groups, but the math and physics students are very serious at CU Boulder, and top ranked mechanical and aerospace programs attracting very accomplished students such as you. There is also an applied math program that some mechanical engineers minor in, very good option to learn more computer modeling. With that, yes, you can find parties in Boulder if you want them.
hi bdoobie,
even i am admitted to fall 2015 mechanical MS. i am from a developing Asian country so even i was worried about the effect of a superb natural backdrop that boulder offers. Do you by any chance know of any sort of technical clubs present in CU Boulder relating to Mech?
I was wondering does NOT having AP Calc or AP Physics decrease my chance of getting into engineering?? or even pre-engineering??