<p>"Students in this program attend one of fifteen participating institutions where they take all of the mathematics and science and many of the engineering courses required in the first two years of an engineering program at Georgia Tech. Upon successful completion of these classes, the students transfer to Georgia Tech to complete the requirements for an engineering degree."</p>
<p>Would enrolling in the RETP program at a local college be easier so you can skip the weed out courses at Georgia Tech the first two years? I mean, first year, students take the same classes anyway. I attended a campus tour and one of the tour leaders told us that 70% of freshman lose HOPE scholarship because Professors try to fail you. However, this RETP program, I think you take the same courses as you would in your first two years at GT, except they're not like the weed out courses. The tour leader mentioned that word "weed out" alot.</p>
<p>Oh, well, 60+ is ok, but do you think its better to do RETP since its linked with GT? thats what my question was.
Would students who enroll in the RETP program be at a disadvantage when applying to graduate school after they have done two years at a smaller college and then finished at GT? For disadvantage, Im saying would the person who did all 4 or 5 years at GT and didn’t transfer, have a better chance than the person who did transfer. Or does this depend on the GPA because a person could get a high gpa the first two years at the smaller college(RETP), and the person who attends GT the first two years could get a low gpa b/c of the rigor. What do you think?</p>
<p>No. Companies and graduate schools only look at your degree-granting university, not the prestige of the school from which you transferred.</p>
<p>That said, RETP students do have several disadvantages. The most significant is that at the RETP school, you will not have the internship or research resources of Georgia Tech. Second, as an RETP student, you’ll take more major courses/semester in your last two years than a non-RETP student. Third, your foundation courses won’t be as difficult as an RETP student, so you will need to work harder in upper level courses.</p>
<p>Foundation courses = Physics, Chemistry, Calculus, etc. These would be taken at the RETP school and would not be as hard as at Tech. As a result, the Tech students have a more thorough background in those areas.</p>
<p>Ok, but the main issue is Hope scholarship. I really do not want to lose this at TECH the first two years. So would RETP be a better option. Would the gpa carry on from the RETP school to Georgia Tech when I transfer over?</p>
<p>No. When you transfer to Georgia Tech, you start entirely over with a new GPA. </p>
<p>I don’t think it’s really that hard to keep HOPE if you actually apply yourself. Just take simple precautions to make sure that you don’t lose it: don’t take too many very difficult courses in the same semester, if you bomb your first semester, only get to 29 hours by the second to give you an extra semester before review.</p>
<p>Ok, but what do you think I should do. I could say I’m a smart student with the AP classes and all that. Should I go to GT all 4-5 years or should I do RETP and transfer after two years? I can work hard and study, and hopefully I won’t reach a point where I’d burn out.(although I heard most students get burned out) at GT. It’s only for the first two years because of the weed out courses.</p>
<p>There are two things: One is Ga Tech GPA. One starts with 0.0 when student transfers.
Another is Hope Eligibility GPA. It does include all college level courses (including remedy courses).</p>
<p>If OP worries about Hope Scholarship, why does he/she just work hard at RETP school and get 4.0 for example for a year and started Ga Tech as a sophomore. This way, he/she got 30 credits buffer to keep his/her GPA high and also only miss one year at Ga Tech. From what I understanding about RETP and TAG at GPC is mainly to recruits students to GPC (Disclaimer: I don’t know about other RETP program). Students still need to meet same transfer requirement and transfer GPA is subject change at anytime by Ga Tech. Sometimes, adviser at GPC advise students to take extra non transferable courses so that student can get Associated degree and makes GPC look good.</p>
<p>Also, did OP not investigate Ga Tech Promise? I thought that Ga Tech provide financial aids with all grants - student’s EFC for students whose income below $33,000.</p>
<p>IMO, the most difficult courses at Tech are Calculus I, Calculus II, Calculus III, Physics I, Physics II, CS 1 and CS 2. Those are traditionally Tech weedout courses. So if you are truly worried about your grade, you can always take some of those courses in summer at other USG schools as transient student or finish those before coming to Tech.</p>
<p>As for burnout, do some co-op assignment in between. You got some additional money and experience.</p>
<p>So, I’m in a community college right now and I just recently heard about the RETP. Would it be possible to transfer to a school like Dalton College and enroll yourself into the program?</p>