<p>I hear so many stories of GA Tech being impossible to get through without taking large hits at your GPA...is this only for engineering, or is CS equally as difficult/"impossible"?</p>
<p>Those stories are from people without the discipline to go to class and do their homework. Plenty of people do just great at GT. Some people who don’t like to whine about it. You don’t have to be brilliant, just motivated.</p>
<p>[Grade</a> Distribution by Department](<a href=“http://www.irp.gatech.edu/apps/Grades/Grades_by_Dept.cfm?TRM=201008&mode_display=percent&id=000000]Grade”>http://www.irp.gatech.edu/apps/Grades/Grades_by_Dept.cfm?TRM=201008&mode_display=percent&id=000000)</p>
<p>If it doesn’t work, type in a recent semester, departs, and levels (that way you get an accurate reflection that does not account for grad. classes which has a far high average).</p>
<p>Either way, these averages are not bad for an engineering school.Comparable Schools have similar averages, including places like MIT where the SATs are a bit higher (Their average GPA is not but so much higher, if you count freshmen year grades). Just do the work and you’ll come out fine. It’s an engineering school, it’s going to kind of hard and will not grade easily. The only engineering school that is clearly grading kind of easy is probably Stanford (no way they could have an average graduating GPA of 3.6 if it wasn’t grading easier than the other schools that are pre-dominantly engineering or have engineering attached). Either way, You’ll notice in fall, the CS average grade give was about a 3.0, with upper division courses averaging rougly a B+ (3.3-3.6x) and the lower/intros. averaging a B- (2.7-2.9X). This actually seems to be a bit better than many public schools in science/engineering oriented courses. Tech doesn’t use +/- so this means that in upperdivision: it is giving more As than Bs, and for lower division, slightly more Cs than Bs, though that of course isn’t completely accurate (there will be Cs and Ds, as such grades live on at Tech as at most public schools).
Yeah, just follow GP’s advice and just do the work. You don’t do it, naturally you will not do well.</p>
<p>I feel as though I’m a hard worker, I just want to know, compared to Engineering Majors, do CS majors at GT have an easier workload? Do the professors care more?</p>
<p>Why would they have easier workloads? The CS major here doesn’t really have much of an easy workload, why would theirs? You will have lots of programming and projects to do just as an engineering major (I’m not comparing them head to head, I’m just saying there will be a lot to do). Professor quality and mentorship is hard to measure, but I imagine some folks on here will have some anecdotes. This is how doable some courses. My friend doing the 3-2 program is there for ChemE and never took a CS class of any kind before, and got an A in Matlab. Also, he was a Chem. major here, so he didn’t have a particular advantage as being a more “technically” (as opposed to natural/hard science) oriented person. If he can do it, so can you, even with no experience. This doesn’t tell about upper level courses, but the grade distribution table indicates that most are performing significantly better in upperlevels. This can be indicative of: better teaching, smaller classes, changes in pedagogy/lecture format more “subjective” workload (projects, papers, everything but exams, etc. A >B+ average indicates something is going well after the intros. in the CS dept. This is a bit higher than the solid B at upperlevels in the engineering school, so it may be possible that the workload is less (or at least, less objective).</p>