<p>I'm interested to transfer to GT spring 2013 Computer Engineering, if got admitted. But I've heard that it is unbelievably hard to maintain a good, like 3.5+; Some of these comments are on student reviews website, and most of them said "it is like a hell" it is even impossible to get out if would like to transfer to another college, because your GPA would be broken. I'm wondering if that only happens in lower division class, or even the core classes? Since I've completed all of these class and It won't affect me. Compared to another college like Texas A&M, which I also applied for, is GT considered significantly better overall academics?</p>
<p>I’m a transfer student and in my experience, it ranges quite a bit. Some teachers are pretty easy, most are what you’d expect, and a small percentage are obnoxiously hard. In my experience, most of the teachers grade a little harder than at other schools (less or no partial credit for problems), and the material on exams is a little more challenging but you’ll have more challenging homework and projects to prepare you. Generally, you just have to work a little harder, but it’s nothing earth-shattering. This is, of course, as long as you don’t get one of the “Four Horsemen.”</p>
<p>The Four Horsemen are the four math professors at Tech with the lowest overall GPAs. I took a class with one of them and it was definitely the most difficult class of my life. I am very good at math, but they he used every trick in the book to massacre your GPA. He put proofs unlike anything you’ve ever seen on a quiz or test, he made time limits nearly impossible, and he graded really hard. There are other professors who are not math professors who are similarly difficult (I’ve heard some horror stories from an AE grad student about upper division AE classes), but generally these professors make up a small percentage of the faculty and are avoidable after your first semester here. Your first semester, you won’t have much choice since you’ll be registering last-minute. If the name of the professor teaching a class is “to be announced” (TBA), it might be a bad sign. That’s how I landed myself the most brutal professor of my life, but at the same time I can honestly say that I’ve never learned more in a class than I did in that one, not because the professor was amazing but because in order to do well I had to spend an absurd amount of time studying and thoroughly understanding not just the procedures of solving a type of problem, but the concepts and proofs related to it. Without a curve, most would have failed the class, but the curve wasn’t very friendly and far less people than typical at Tech got A’s. I believe this professor is using his class to screen for the next Einstein or something.</p>
<p>I believe the lower division classes have more of these extremely tough professors, but based on what the AE student said, similarly difficult professors pop up in upper division classes.</p>