<p>Hello! I just was accepted to the Honors Program at Northeastern University, which I'm pretty excited about. One stipulation, however, is that you have to maintain a 3.4 GPA to stay in the Honors Program. </p>
<p>I was accepted to the College of Engineering, and I'm planning to do either electrical engineering or computer engineering. I may try to work in environmental studies somewhere too. Anyway, am I going to be hard-pressed to maintain this GPA? I have a 96.9/100 GPA in high school, counting freshman through junior years. I have an average of an 89 in my AP Physics C: Mechanics class so far this semester, and a 95.5 in my AP Calc AB class, if that's relavent.</p>
<p>My concern is that I'm not incredible at math and I don't have a programming background. Will I be hard-pressed to stay above a 3.4?</p>
<p>First, congratulation! Are you a HS senior now?</p>
<p>Just remember three things:</p>
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<li>Try not to fall into the evil of procrastination</li>
<li>Try to prepare before going to lecture (or right after lecture, review your notes)</li>
<li>Seek helps from upperclassmen! don’t be shy!</li>
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<p>You can surely maintain 3.4. I don’t attend Northeastern U, but I think fairly every department has several hardcore professors that are either harsh graders, or not very good at teaching (i say that as voted by the majority of the student body -.-). Do well on liberal art courses. If you get kicked out of honors, fine, but do you lose scholarships?</p>
<p>For programming - check the course list, and see if the course lists the language you need to learn as an introductory course. Engineering students must have at least one computer science class. Beside that, EE/CpE students need to learn Matlab too. Don’t worry about it. When time comes you will learn them.
But for your introductory course, if it’s C, c++, java, you can google tutorials.</p>
<p>To maintain my scholarship I have to keep a GPA of 3.0 or above. However, the scholarship is less of an issue for me. I think the Honors college sounds awesome and I know it would look good on my resum</p>
<p>EE is one of the hardest engineering majors, at least at the school I’m at. But since the school selected you for the program they probably think you won’t have trouble with it unless you goof off completely.</p>
<p>You may find the going much tougher than hs. Even good students sometimes see test scores/midterm grades, final course grades that are lower than they’re used to. It can be a shock.</p>
<p>Good chance this will not happen to you. But if it does, don’t let it deter you. Follow the good advice above… and add to it:</p>
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<li>Visit prof/TA office hours about any difficulties.</li>
<li>Seek out study partners/groups.</li>
<li>Take advantage of departmental or university Academic Support programs - study skills, etc… if you need this.</li>
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To maintain my scholarship I have to keep a GPA of 3.0 or above. However, the scholarship is less of an issue for me. I think the Honors college sounds awesome and I know it would look good on my resum</p>
<p>Use the easy semesters to pad out the tougher ones. I have a similar situation (have to maintain 3.5) - the first two semesters I got around a 3.9, which makes getting a 3.3 or 3.4 during harder semesters OK.</p>