How hard is it to get a 3.75+ GPA in Engineering School?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Michigan
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<p>What is the average GPA in the engineering school?
What is the median GPA?</p>

<p>How hard is the chemical engineering program at Michigan?</p>

<p>If you are a valedictorian at your High School is a high GPA almost guaranteed?</p>

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<p>Average GPA for engineering is somewhere around a 2.7 I believe. If you go in expecting to get a 3.75+, you’re gonna have a bad time.</p>

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<p>The number that the school quotes is 2.9 but I think it’s probably more like a 3.0-3.1 in reality. 3.75 is attainable, plenty of people get it. Perhaps you could say going in expecting it is the wrong attitude though. I would not say it’s easy to get a 3.75 though, you’ll have to work hard to get it.</p>

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<p>The mean/median is probably in the 3.0 range. </p>

<p>Chemical Engineering is one of the hardest concentrations in the CoE.</p>

<p>Over half the students in the college of Engineering graduated among the top 5% of their class, yet only 5% will maintain GPAs in the 3.7+ range. So no, there are no guarantees of a high GPA. However, a valedictorian at a competitive high school should be able to maintain a 3.7+ GPA, provided he/she work hard for it.</p>

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<p>ChemE is very difficult at UM. One of my roommates is a ChemE and he frequently comes back at 3-4 AM early friday morning and has told me on numerous occasions that one problem takes 5-6 hours. He said they sometimes have 10 exponential equations with 10 unknowns that has to be solved using an external math solver since Wolfram Alpha Pro can’t even solve it.</p>

<p>In terms of the average, I think the average in the engineering school is a 2.8 with EECS and ChemE bringing down the scale and BME and IOE bringing up the scale.</p>

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<p>It is not very easy. That’s averaging over an A- in every class. All it takes is a bad final here, or a ****ty group there to drop your grade significantly. Keeping your GPA that high requires an intelligent, hard working student, as well as a nice bit of luck.</p>

<p>Luckily though the main goal is getting a good/great job after college. And luckily most of these jobs aren’t going to require that high of a GPA and will care much more about your work experience.</p>