<p>Hello guys.. so basically i originally started as a computer science major trying to transfer to to UCLA, and then i changed my major into Computer Engineering still trying to go to LA, then i got interested in Nuclear Engineering but its going to take me an extra year to finish up making it a total of 3 years that i will have to stay in community college my GPA by the time i graduate will be around 3.76-3.8 can you please chance me ? or tell me if its possible or not and if it is how hard is it going to be.. ? </p>
<p>my extra activities is i have two jobs and i do community service and i am enrolled in 2 honor societies, AGS, and PTK and i will finish more that 15 honor unites by the time i transfer in not 20. </p>
<p>get all your prereqs done ([Welcome</a> to ASSIST](<a href=“http://www.assist.org%5DWelcome”>http://www.assist.org)), keep up your gpa, and you’ll probably be fine.</p>
<p>kind of off topic… but are you sure you want to major in nuclear engineering? i mean it is a very specific major and there aren’t many position available on the market, especially with just a bachelor degree. If I were you I would choose a general major like physics or electrical engineering, then maybe apply for grad school in nuclear engineering if I really want to.</p>
<p>well i wanted to do the material/nuclear engineering program… and the reason why i wanna do it is because i am interested in it but my goal is med school after undergrad so it doesnt really matter what i study because i will not be looking for a job in that field</p>
<p>Have you considered mechanical? It is much more versatile. In fact, as a fall-back, you could go into the biomedical realm of mechanical engineering.</p>
<p>Lmao just throwing this out there… but do NOT plan on attending a top public school in the country for engineering with the idea that you will graduate with a GPA that is acceptable for admission into med-school.</p>
<p>@hesdjjim thats a good suggestion i will take it into consideration THANKS !</p>
<p>@killmyentourage how come ? i am pretty sure that i will graduate with a pretty good GPA i took all the calc series and started on my physics and other pre reqs and so far i have a 4.0 so are you saying that after i transfer my gpa will go down drastically ? and i expect to finish with a 3.7 because i am pretty sure that i will screw up in this upcoming semester</p>
<p>If you’re from a community college then your gpa won’t transfer over. Only credits. The thing is, Berkeley engineering is really competitive. Whereas in a cc you work against yourself, at Berkeley you’re competing against all the students in the class. There may be times where you feel like you’ve studied so much for a midterm/final, yet only receieve the average grade. Depending on the professor, the average may be a C+ or B- or even a B if you’re lucky.*</p>
<p>BUT, if you study and work hard, you should do fine. I’ll be transferring to UCLA from UCR (also got accepted to berkeley)</p>
<p>Heres a situation. I took upper division linear algebra and discrete math for my last quarter here at UCR. My lin. Algebra class had only around 25-30 students by the end of the quarter while the discrete math class had over 75. Needless to say, I felt a lot more pressure in the linear algebra class compared to discrete math class because I was probably the only computer engineering major there while everyone else were math/applied math majors. the cumulative average grade in the class was a 65%, which after curved, was a C/C+. In actuality, a C- to a C+ was from 41% to 69%. However, because I worked on problem sets early, went to office hours, and *made sure I understood every theorem/definition/proofs, I got an A+ in the class.</p>
<p>So like I said. Hard work will definitely pay off in the end. It’s true that engineering majors typically have lower gpas then say, bio majors. But it’s all relative. Just don’t pick a math major for Berkeley for med school. Their average graduation gpa for undergrads ranges from a 2.8-2.9 while an engineering major is above a 3.0.</p>
<p>This topic is extensively covered throughout CC and the internet in general so I’m not going to go in depth. </p>
<p>If you had a mid range GPA (I believe the average Cal Eng GPA is near a 3.4) and someone else had a 3.9 GPA with a degree in Music Appreciation and identical other statistics, 3.9 trumps 3.4 EVERY time.</p>
<p>Additionally, Nuclear Eng is already a unit heavy major and you will have to take a ton of classes that aren’t required by the major for pre-med (a 2nd semester of genchem, 2 semesters of ochem, year of biology, usually a stat course, often an additional biochem or microbio course, sometimes A&P, in addition to the Calc & Phys sequence) which are going to be even HARDER at the school you transfer to than at your CC. You also are generally expected to have plenty of research and a well rounded background, not to mention time to study for the MCAT. I can’t speak for UCLA, but at UCB, you’re required to graduate within 5 semesters for Engineering so if you haven’t completed the classes I mentioned above, you’re going to have a hard time fitting them into your schedule.</p>
<p>Overall, do what you want but I would highly suggest you start reading at least the actual forums on the schools you’re interested in and see what people are saying about GPA/your major/difficulty overall.</p>
<p>so wait ! your telling me that once i transfer to a UC my gpa goes back to 0 and i have to start all over again ??? and your telling me that if i were to transfer to cal i would have 5 semesters to finish everything and i wont have enough time because nuclear engineering is full of classes ? so what about Material/Mechanical engineering ? now going back to the 3.9 and 3.4 gpa’s do others also agree that a 3.9 music with the same states of a 3.4 engineering. the music will beat the engineering ? WOW ! thats disappointing… and killmyentourage where can i find forums that talk about difficulties of majors ? I LOOKED ALL OVER GOOGLE FOR nuclear barely anything there !</p>
<p>Obviously, you haven’t done very much research on medical school if you don’t know these things. Med schools only require you to have a bachelors degree in ANY major and to have completed the pre-reqs and taken the MCAT. How do you even know that you want to go to medical school? Have you even taken any science classes other than physics? You obviously have a strong interest in comp sci and physical sciences… you do realize that med school is based on the overall human application of mostly life sciences and that the majority of people that want to go to med school never make it? You also realize that you will probably need to apply to anywhere from 10-20+ medical schools?</p>
<p>No one talks about Nuclear Engineering because very few people major in it and the job prospects aren’t that high. </p>
<p>And yes, at Cal you have 5 semesters to graduate with ANY Engineering degree (all other majors only allow 4) so you most likely will not be able to complete the rest of your med school pre-reqs if you major in something that requires a lot of classes (ie. BS especially in Engineering). You can look at what classes you still would have to take for NuclearEng here
[General</a> Nuclear Engineering Program | The Nuclear Engineering Department At UC Berkeley](<a href=“http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/gennuc]General”>http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/gennuc) to get a general idea of how many classes you will have to take after transferring.</p>
<p>If you have yet to take the classes I mentioned, it will be practically impossible to complete that in addition to your major classes seeing as how Cal Bio 1A & 1B (equivalent to the 1 yr sequence) are 9 semester units, GenChem 2 is 4 units, and Ochem 1 & 2 are 10 units. On a side note, some of these classes are known for being GPA killers. Of course, you can take these classes at a community college provided you have a decent registration priority and are willing to take an extra year before/after you finish your bach.</p>
<p>Once again, I know nothing about UCLA but after you spend days on the internet looking up med school and realizing what exactly you’re getting into… if you STILL want to go, I would apply to Cal for Computer Science in L&S. It will be a BA rather than the BS from EECS. If you really do like NucEng (or any other Eng for that matter), then you should drop the med-school notions and just focus on that.</p>
<p>Haha no man I have done my research… and actually by the time I transfer I will be done with all the Med school pre reqs… and 5 semesters to after I transfer are more than enough to complete my classes because I will also take summer schools. And the reason why I wanna go to Med school is because I like it and yes I have a huge background in sciences like Bio and chem when I was in 9th and 10th grade back in israel I was in a program where they teach us about modern medicine I guess you could call it that way… and back there we pick our majors from 9th grade of course depending on what grades you got, anyways I was biochemestry and I was a pro and chem and Bio in fact I took the AP Bio class and got a 5 on the test and an A in the class pretty easily and of course honor chem… I am good at it and I like it… and I know that I could major in whatever I want but I never expected them to look at all the degrees equally because in my opinion a degree in music is not even close to be as much of a degree in enginering…and as for the mcat I should really be worried about getting ready for it sincemost of the covered material in it I will learn in depth like math physical and chem. Bio might be the only thing that I will have to study on my own for the mcat. Look I know my stuff about Med school don’t worry about that my questions are about my under grade major. And if any of you are engineering majors and you attend or attended Cal or UCLA I would appreciate it if you told me what you gpas are… oh and the reason I wanna do engineering is because I like the beauty behind it I like engineering but I wouldn’t choose it as a carear because of the low pay and because I don’t think ill be able to pay my student loan with barely 70k a year… so what do you think killmy… what should I do??? And of course eveyone is welcome to answer my question!!! Thanks guys</p>
<p>haha sorry i wrote it late at night and i was trying not to pass out lolol ill re-edit or just rewrite the whole thing. </p>
<p>what i said was this:</p>
<p>Look i did my research about med schools i know that i could major in whatever i want, but what got me surprised was the fact that according to what your saying every degree is equal in the eyes of the med schools.</p>
<p>now for the med school pre reqs matter i know that there are pre reqs and i will be done with them by the time i transfer, or ill like 1 more left by the time i transfer remember ill be at CC for 3 years so thats plenty of time to finish them along with IGETC stuff .</p>
<p>Now whether i have ever taken a science other than physics, YES ! in a matter of fact i took more bio and chem classes then i took physics. I finished my 9th and 10th grade back in israel and over there kids must major from 9th grade. my major there was biochemistry and i must admit that i kicked butts at it. when i came to the states i took ap BIO and chem H and they were pretty easy and i got a 5 on the AP test. On top of all of that back in 9th and 10th grade i also did a special program where they teach us about modern surgery techniques idk how to describe that in english.</p>
<p>The reason why i know why i wanna go to med school is because it interests me as much as engineering does only the reason why i chose it over engineering was the pay and the fear of not being able to pay my student loans if i were to do engineering. i am not saying that med school promises me a job that will pay for my student loans but i will defiantly have better chanced and a doctor only gets better with age(obtaining experience) engineering companies like fresh minds younger and more creative all the time so i have put some thought into it.</p>
<p>now going back to transferring to cal i must disagree with you i believe that 5 semesters along with 2 summer semester are more then enough time to finish my major courses and study for the MCAT, which i dont think will require too much studying since most of the subjects on it i will study with depth during my undergrad studies.</p>
<p>Hopefully this is a little bit more organized =]</p>
<p>Are you a U.S. citizen or U.S. Permanent Resident (Green Card Holder)? If not, your chances of admission to a U.S. medical school are close to zero.</p>
<p>While you can take the premed requirements at your CCC, it is said that medical schools take a negative view of community colleges and want to see these courses completed at a four year college or university.</p>