<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>Is Engineering impacted at UC Davis? I know at some other places, like UCSB and Cal Poly, engineering is impacted.</p>
<p>How’s the situation at Davis?</p>
<p>Biomedical, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Materials Science are impacted. The rest are not.</p>
<p>@jesuis, how about biosystems engineering? i heard that was impacted… i am not talking about biomedical, only biosystems engineering</p>
<p>bump 10 char</p>
<p>Well, the ones I listed are the only majors which require a 2.8 GPA in the prerequisite classes to switch into them. The rest require a 2.0, so I assumed they weren’t impacted. I’m not positive on that, though.</p>
<p>JeSuis has it correct. Last I looked, the required GPA was for 5 specific Science/Math courses, but that may have changed.</p>
<p>To the OP, I would just be careful about the use of the word “impacted”. At UCSB, for example, Engineering is truly impacted at the freshman/soph level. If you are not admitted as an engineering major, you can apply to change major into engineering, but there is no guarantee of letting you in no matter how high your grades. If there are any spots available due to students leaving the major, they will let a few students in — based on their competitive transcript.</p>
<p>At Davis, anyone getting the specified GPA is admitted. That’s quite a generous offer. And in my opinion, if you can’t get a 2.0 or 2.8 GPA (depending on the engineering discipline), you really don’t want to go into engineering anyway.</p>
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<p>It’s Math 21A-C, Physics 9A, and Chemistry 2A.</p>
<p>I have a 2.68 GPA in the 5 courses mentioned above. I applied to Davis as an Applied Math major (transfer student). So just to clarify, if I wanted to change to Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering this Winter, will I be accepted (my GPA in those classes is higher than 2.0)?</p>
<p>You should be good for those two. Only the four I listed above require a 2.8 GPA.</p>
<p>@jesuis & @beebthe1, thanks a lot!</p>
<p>Kind of off topic, but my question is still about engineering. As a chemical engineering major, how much calculus (specifically vector/multivar calc) do I actually need to know? I have already taken Calc 3 at a community college and want to get a feel if I should retake it at Davis. Do I need to know the ins and out of it or will reviewing what I need as I take engineering courses suffice?</p>