<p>Hey Im interested in applying to the SEAS for either Mechanical engineering or Electical engineering and i have a couple of questions.
-First, about the campus, while i know its urban, does it still feel like youre on a college campus? It looks really nice but I dont want an urban facade like NYU. Im going to visit for one of the engineering open houses later in july but im in
-how is the SEAS looked at for graduate placement, etc. Right now I want to go into patent law. Do they have good placement?
-Does the school have crazy grade deflation. It is an engineering school in a tough college, that scares me a little, althought it wouldnt deter me from going :p
-Finally, can engineering students study abroad?</p>
<p>columbia does have that campus-like feel and the best thing is that it offers either the campus feel or the urban feel depending on where you live and what you prefer but you will definately get both experiences since you will live on campus freshman year and off the main campus the other three years (probably)</p>
<p>You will have a lower GPA than if you were in the college but compared to other engineering schools it hands out better grades.</p>
<p>It is hard for an engineering student to study abroad but its doable if you plan it perfectly from the very very beginning.</p>
<p>kk thanks for the fast reply! Any other opinions?</p>
<p>Also, Will a 720M 700V 690W SAT and 740 Math II 720 Physics (740 US Hist) SATII be too low for SEAS? Im gonna take SAT again in october but im a little worried about that sincei tseems math scores are soo high. I might apply ED if i like it there btw</p>
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<p>Yeah, SEAS kids go to the top med schools, law schools and PhD programs. The only thing that matters for law school is GPA and LSAT. You're hurt to the extent that it is harder to get good grades.</p>
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<p>Your liberal arts classes will be crazy grade inflated. SEAS curves aren't that bad. The average GPA is still 3.2ish in SEAS.</p>
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<p>It's really easy to do a semester abroad. Doing a year is probably harder.</p>
<p>thanks! its good to know that i could study abroad. While a year would be amazing, just the opportunity to do it at all is important to me.</p>
<p>also, i have a question about the application. One of the teacher recs ont he app says for engineering it must be a math teacher. Does this mean you can only get it from a math teacher, or does physics count as math? I got an A+ in math, but i think i seemed kinda like an ******* in class because its a bit below my level (on level precalc, they wouldnt let me take Honors because of our system!) while if it was physics, I could get my AP Physics B teacher (got A-) but he liked me i think</p>
<p>Math means math. I'm sure people get accepted every year who don't follow directions (wrong teachers writing recs, taking the wrong SAT2's, etc.).</p>
<p>well my freshman math teacher retired and my sophomore one was a little weird, dont know if i trust him even though he was a smart guy. It wont be a problem to get it from my math teacher, im sure. I just wouldve prefered physics and foudn it a little weird that they only want math</p>
<p>If you think you're going to get a bad rec from this teacher, avoid him like the plague. Any school is going to be turned off by a bad rec, since most people have really good recs.</p>
<p>No i wouldnt get a bad rec, as i said i wouldve prefered physics but im not worried, esp if i talk to him and explain why i may have seemed bored. i did help a lot of people in the class who werent that smart, maybe he liked that</p>
<p>in my case, I took IBH math which was the hardest math offered in my school (its also harder than AP) so I clearly wasnt bored or anything but I did well but my problem was that the teacher was VERY disinterrested...he was great but he wasnt one to want to socialize or really talk very much at all....but i had to get a rec from him....so what i did is i asked him for a rec to just follow instructions but i also got three other recs since i knew his rec would be very insignificant in representing me or my abilities....and i was right....i think he wrote like a few lines about the class and said i did well in like one sentence but at least i had followed directions without penalizing myself.</p>
<p>uh no Columbia2002, SEAS avg GPA is not 3.2. It's around 2.8. Anyways, I just graduated from CU's Electrical Engineering program. The faculty is a really mixed bag. Some professors are exceptionally passionate about their research and are great professors, other ones... well they can't teach at all. Most are from bell labs and are socially akward.</p>
<p>I thought the program was great though. I picked up a job right out of school with Motorola. CU really teaches you to fend for yourself though, job placement and internships for engineers is kind of poor, BUT they are working very hard on fixing that.</p>
<p>If you want to go into patent law, A LOT of my friends have gotten into really prestigious programs as these schools really like the quantitative and problem solving skills of engineers. </p>
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<p>Source? I've seen the printouts that they give to the professors. You have anything more than rumor and speculation? How can the GPA be 2.8. The curve is 2.8 in only the <em>hardest</em> classes.</p>
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If you want to go into patent law, A LOT of my friends have gotten into really prestigious programs as these schools really like the quantitative and problem solving skills of engineers.
<p>Columbia2002 is right. Those are probably the two most important factors, but not "all" there is to the admission process, as 4.0s/180s, I'm sure, have been rejected in the past.</p>