<p>Several times I've seen CCers tell prospective engineering majors with professional school aspirations that following such an undergraduate pathway will result in a detrimental GPA hit. My question is: what courses, specifically, are responsible for this?</p>
<p>It’s different courses for each engineering major. I know for my friends and myself in materials it was the series of thermodynamics classes we had to do.</p>
<p>theory classes can be hard. labs can be hard and time-consuming as well. it really depends on the program & school.</p>
<p>Well that really sucks then. Because in high school, my GPA was only a 2.4!</p>
<p>I guess the only place to go is up!</p>
<p>Also depends on your work ethic too.</p>
<p>College is a completely different experience than high school. Often times students will some poor decisions that kill their GPA’s.</p>
<p>I have found the hit to the gpa is surmountable and not worth worrying about. It will be different courses for different students, the disciplines teach a lot in different ways. Facade has the right mentality to be a good engineer.</p>
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<p>a 2.4? Where exactly are you attending school? I ask because you are the person who wanted to double major in EE and ChemE. I got the impression from the other thread that you had better high school stats.</p>
<p>Yeah I agree with the work ethic. I didn’t study nearly enough in college which is why my GPA is poor compared to what I could have. Also, unless you’re very disciplined or genuinely interested in your major it is difficult (at least for me) to sit and read/stare at a book. I find that with my electives I am more interested and I am able to make myself study more. </p>
<p>But to answer the question organic chemistry I & II were my hardest classes. Taking org II during the summer wasn’t smart.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone! So is it fair to say that some of the more difficult courses an undergraduate engineering major would face are the hard science requirements?</p>
<p>I barely made it through dynamics (both times) but did fine in all the thermo classes.</p>
<p>Look at the course load of a typical program and you’ll see a boat load of classes unversally thought to be difficult. Some breeze right through those and struggle in econ or history. </p>
<p>We’re all different.</p>
<p>Thanks Japher.</p>
<p>And to vblick, yes that was me. And yes, a 2.4! I’ll be attending Seattle Pacific University, although I was originally going to attend Penn State. Don’t know how I got it to either, but I did. Probably because of my essay…but that’s a different topic. And I could see why you’d get that impression, since engineers are notorious for having superb grades in high school; but that aint me. My high school career sucked, some reasons of which were my own doing and others that were drastically out of my control. </p>
<p>However, it doesn’t define me or my capabilities…hence why I KNOW I could double EE and ChemE. =D </p>
<p>But hey, that’s what freshmen year in college is for right? A new change, so the only place I can go is up.</p>
<p>I like your enthusiasm, more of us could use it…heck, I could use it!</p>
<p>Why do you WANT to double-major in those?</p>
<p>@ cconroy:: Go get you some enthusiasm, then! Haha.</p>
<p>@ yg7s7:: Honestly? Well, I like the idea of photonics and nanotechnology, so EE would be right there in my alley. But I’e always been drawn to chemicals ( I loved chemistry), and after learning about the chemical engineer possibilites at Area-51, I simply new I wanted to do it!</p>