<p>All of my friends who transferred from a CC to rutgers have experienced a drop in their GPA. Are Rutgers really that hard? :( The scary part is, they had really good GPAs at the CC. I can't imagine the ones with bad GPA in CC lol.</p>
<p>I’m interested in this as well 
could have just as well been the adjustment to real college life.</p>
<p>they suggest doing a little less than 15 credits for freshmen and transfers. but i don’t think transfers would want to waste tuition or time like that =/</p>
<p>My brother only took 12 credits this fall semester and so far it has been a TON of work compared to CC. He is 100 % sure his GPA will drop.</p>
<p>It might depend on the CC you come from. For mine we have to study at least 30 hours to get an A on biology tests for most of our bio teachers. Chem is practically the same way and our math department is notorious for having class that have 60 spots ending up with 7 students at the end of the term.</p>
<p>I really think we’ll be fine. I planning on taking bio chem calc and some core class or something.</p>
<p>Actually, mine went from a about a 3.2 in community college to about a 3.6 at Rutgers (and this was with my credit load ranging from 15 to 22 credits in engineering). I think it depends on your community college and your major. I’m engineering and I basically hated all the initial level math and physics courses so I found the higher level courses easier. Another friend of mine who transferred into engineering found that his GPA remained the same, staying around 3.4. So it’s not a given that your GPA will drop when you transfer.</p>
<p>That is great to hear. I already took all my lower level science classes here at the cc(gen bio I and II, gen chem I and II, organic chem I and II, gen physics I and II, and calculus I and II. I will be taking mostly upper level science classes like biochemistry, microbiology, physiology, etc. I hope I will be OK.</p>
<p>I heard that the classes I took at cc are meant to weed out students at RU. So I guess I will be OK lol.</p>
<p>thanks for the input! i really do hope I maintain the same GPA or higher since I’m very passionate about my major =)</p>
<p>Having transferred to Rutgers this semester from CC I can assure you Rutgers is more difficult. I think it has more to do with the fact that the course material is just harder and not that the professors make it a whole lot more difficult. I had a 3.9 at CC and spent about 20 hours/week on homework/studying. At Rutgers I’m probably doing about 40+ hours and I’ll probably be getting around a 3.0. Really just because of one class. I wasn’t really prepared at all cause I didn’t take physics in highschool and had two bad physics teachers at CC so I really haven’t learned any physics.</p>
<p>I’m in engineering by the way.</p>
<p>Knownenemy, engineering itself is already hard. I think a 3.0 is a respectable GPA for engineering.</p>
<p>Just bearly haha. It’s like a 3.0+ and you’re almost guaranteed a job. Under 3.0 and your not worth anything. There’s a big wall there in engineering or so it seems. Every company I’ve talked to or looked into has at least a 3.0 cutoff, and a lot have a 3.2 cutoff. Not sure what happends to everyone below 3.0 cause that’s almost half the school I think. My major gpa should be much higher though. Around a 3.5-3.7</p>
<p>Yeah. I am scared that my GPA will drop. I am going to stalk the webreg 24/7 so I can get the good teachers LOL.</p>
<p>Haha why it’s not like we can actually sign up for them until orientation!</p>
<p>Yeah I know I wish I can freakin register for them now.</p>
<p>What’s your major?</p>
<p>I am going to major in biological sciences.</p>
<p>Bottle are you able to log into webreg account yet? I’m kind of curious as well lol.</p>
<p>As is evidenced by KNoWNENeMY and my experiences transferring into the same school, whether your GPA drops or not depends on the community college you’re coming in from. </p>
<p>Some community colleges (or specifically teachers at community colleges) are extremely easy because they feel this is all the education some of these students will get and others view their institution as prep for transfer to a 4 year college so they make it harder. Also, some students take forever to do their associates (seriously, if it took you 3 years to get an AS your GPA is pretty much guaranteed to drop once you reach a 4 year school)</p>
<p>Probably the best indicator for how YOUR GPA will behave, if you’re really that worried, is by looking up Bio majors who transferred from your program to Rutgers and asking how they faired.</p>
<p>Otherwise, don’t try and play games with selecting professors. Sometimes the harder graders are the better orators and you’ll learn the material better with them and get a B, versus taking someone easy who you will get an A with but you will learn nothing. Also, try and take courses you are genuinely interested in so you’ll actually feel motivated to understand the material, not just memorize and you should do fine, especially since you are done with all your chemistry requirements. (The chem department is notoriously bad here and Orgo is known as a major drain on bio majors GPAs.)</p>
<p>I don’t think we can register until orientation.</p>
<p>Thanks Novatrixs. I come brookdale community college and I have met students who are taking science classes here and said that it is harder here than at the 4-year universities they attended.</p>