<p>If I have around a 2.9 as a first year, will the chemical engineering major reject me? Anyone know if the chemE department reached the cap of 50 this year?</p>
<p>I’m almost certain they haven’t reached their cap recently</p>
<p>With that being said, that means I still have a shot? I messed up first year, but I know I can handle the workload and work hard next year. Do they just let in everyone when the cap hasn’t been reached?</p>
<p>Yes – by my understanding is the applications only exist to adjudicate who gets let in if there’s a cap. You were admitted to SEAS, so you’re 100% qualified for any engineering major.</p>
<p>This would be a good thing to talk to your advisor about, though – shoot him/her an email!</p>
<p>UVaSystems, would you happen to know what the minimum GPA is for people who applied for systems? I’m looking at about a 3.3 for first year and dunno if thats good enough</p>
<p>You should be fine, I think only a few people get rejected every year (and I think there’s a waitlist system that will get you in)</p>
<p>what about BME? if i have a 2.9 after my first year, do you think i’ll be rejected? i hope not. i know i can do better!</p>
<p>That’s closer to call. From the email Dean Berger sent to my class (2012, so this email was sent during the summer two years ago, so some statistics may have changed), it looks like 3.0 or thereabouts is the cutoff for where you get let into the major of your choice, and below that is going to be much more dependent on the essays you wrote in your application/your displayed interest in the major. Here is an excerpt from the email:</p>
<p>"You might be interested in some statistics about this year’s process. 90% of SEAS student have been offered admission to their first choice of major, and another 7.9% were offered admission to their second choice. The remaining 2.1% of SEAS students have been offered admission to either their third or fourth choice major. The most competitive major was once again Biomedical Engineering, which had an acceptance rate of roughly 63%. All other majors had acceptance rates greater than 90%, with some majors accepting 100% of students who applied. Less than 10 SEAS students with cumulative GPA above 3.0 failed to gain entry into their first choice major, and all of those students applied to Biomedical Engineering.</p>
<p>“Some of our academic programs continue to grow, and Aerospace Engineering in particular has a larger second-year class than usual. Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Computer Science continue to see stable enrollment numbers, and Chemical Engineering has a particularly strong class. Mechanical Engineering has maintained its strong enrollment, and the enrollment in Engineering Science (and especially the Nanomedicine option) has surged forward this year. Finally, although we have seen about 8% attrition from SEAS due to students transferring to the College, we have also seen a similar number of students transfer into SEAS from the College or from other colleges and universities. As a result, SEAS enrollment overall remains strong at about 2200 students total.”</p>