<p>I received a nice scholarship for my grades. In order to keep it for my senior year I must maintain a 3.5 GPA or higher. Right now I have a 4.00 at community college, but fear that the upper division courses will drop my GPA below 3.5. I basically have a 4.00 because I work really hard, not because I am some genius prodigy, so I'm scared about being able to keep up with the competition in the mechanical engineering department. Once I transfer most people will have the same work ethic I do, but have more natural intelligence. How hard do you think it will be to keep a 3.5 GPA? Input from current ME transfers would be amazing.</p>
<p>I am in the exact same position as you. I too have a 4.0 at Santa Barbara City College and will be transferring to the ME department at UC Berkeley this fall. From what I have been reading I have learned that it will definitely be harder at Berkeley. Not only from the increased course load but also from the increased competition. I also do not consider myself innately intelligent at all. I am not discouraged though. It becomes very hard to distinguish between the student who is naturally intelligent and the one who works his ass off with good study habits. My plan is to keep my Fall semester course load a bit slow so I can adapt to my new living life before I pour on the gnarly classes. Even during spring I plan on only taking 4 classes at a time MAX(somewhere around 15 units). Any more than that and it becomes hard to balance for me. I expect from myself to continue as a top performing student and will not be intimidated by other students. I think a 3.5 is easily attainable with excellent study habits. Your an engineer… Learn how to learn.</p>
<p>Has any of you guys been able to sign up for Engineering 7? It seems to me, without having that class done by the end of this summer, we would pretty much have to stay for another year.</p>
<p>I going to talk to someone pretty soon about all my course articulation. I need to take E7 also but I am not taking any summer classes. There are few classes such as E28 and E10 which I would like to get out of. We had similar classes at my CC but definitely not the same. Assist says they do not articulate but not sure if that is set in stone. When I find out I will post here though.</p>
<p>Looking at page 40 of (<a href=“http://coe.berkeley.edu/students/EngAnn_5-13-10.pdf[/url]”>http://coe.berkeley.edu/students/EngAnn_5-13-10.pdf</a>) there are a total of 5 classes need to be squeezed in during the two years.</p>
<p>1) Engineering 7 – Introduction to Computer Programming (4)
2) ME C85 – Introduction to Solid Mechanics (statics) (3)
3) Engineering 28 – Graphic Communication in Engineering (3) (hopefully can get out of)
4) Engineering 10 – Engineering Design and Analysis (3) (hopefully can get out of)
5) ME 40 – Thermodynamics (3)</p>
<p>Will be pretty insane trying to squeeze everything into two years. </p>
<p>How many classes are you trying to take over summer?</p>
<p>I am in pretty much in the same boat (except my cc offerred E28 last fall and I took it)</p>
<p>I don’t think you have to squeeze everything into 4 semesters. From what I’ve heard: if you are an engineering transfer with more than 3 or 4 lower div classes to finish, you will automatically be granted a fifth semester. The problem is, E7 is the prereq for almost all other lower and upper div engineering courses. So I am not sure how that prereq idea will come into play in terms of class selection.</p>
<p>Engineering is ridiculously hard at Berkeley. I believe the avg gpa is about 2.7.</p>
<p>While I agree you shouldn’t overload yourself, especially on the first semester… yea don’t do that 
Just a word of warning though - the competition is usually worse in the easy classes XD</p>
<p>In the hard classes, the competitive people are in about the same boat you are.</p>
<p>I think you’ll be fine, but as an extra precaution you might want to make sure you have alternate sources of funding, just in case!</p>
<p>if ur getting a 4.0 with all ur major requirements finished, for example with calculus or physics calculus included, u r gunna be totally fine. keep up the good work</p>