<p>Hi I'm still a student in HS, but I was just curious:
How difficult is Rutgers Mechanical Engineering?
What stats would you need to be admitted to College of Engineering @ NB?
What are the courses that you need to take as a freshman for Mechanical Engineering? </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Hi there. SOE is one of the selective programs offered at Rutgers, so the average SAT score and GPA are a bit higher than those of liberal arts.</p>
<p>There’s not much freedom for first engineering students curriculum wise. Meaning, they all have to take the basic core cores before declaring their majors at the end of the 2nd semester; technically, you are a “general engineer” before you declare your major. Until then, you have to take core courses such as calc, chem, comp sci, physics, statics, econ, and, English. Of course, you can AP out of several of these classes as you may desire. Some students may not take these classes because they want to take it over the summer or next year. But, these courses are required, so you will eventually have to take them.</p>
<p>You won’t be start taking mechanical engineering classes until you’re a sophomore…that is, after you have satisfied the core requirements.</p>
<p>I see thanks alot man! I recall seeing your post earlier about classes for engineering. And I learned a few things there. </p>
<p>I say im about an average student. I have the opportunity of bringing my weighted GPA to a 3.85 ish and my UW to a 3.6 ish. Im working on sats at the moment and im hoping I finish by march with a 2100+
If I do fulfill these goals will I have have a chance? And im instate.</p>
<p>Btw is it hard to maintain like 3.7+ as a Rutgers freshman as a engineering major?</p>
<p>Hi 
I’m a sophomore electrical/computer engineering student.</p>
<p>If you’d like to see the curriculum for mechanical/aerospace, click here:
[Mechanical</a> and Aerospace Engineering](<a href=“http://mech.rutgers.edu/current/?page=63]Mechanical”>http://mech.rutgers.edu/current/?page=63)</p>
<p>I can answer any questions you may have about the freshman year courses, but I don’t know about any of the sophomore major-specific courses. You’ll get in with the stats you’ve listed.</p>
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It really depends on the individual. Your performance in high school will not predict your performance in college. Some people are just naturally knowledgable in the engineering courses, and they find it easy to keep up the gpa. Others study hard to get that gpa, or they study really hard and end up with a lower gpa. A 3.7+ will be difficult to maintain unless you get straight A’s and B+'s in all your classes. Even getting a 3.0+ is considered very good.</p>
<p>If you keep your GPA and SAT above 3.7 and 2100+ respectively, I would say you’re in.</p>
<p>Maintaining 3.7+ isn’t as easy as it was in high school. Not only does it depend on the academic capability of the student, but it also depends on the individual’s mentality and the type of courses he/she is taking. Since I’ve been here for less than 5 months, I can’t thoroughly answer your question; but, all I can tell you is -and probably with great accuracy- that if someone’s willing to maintain 3.7+, he has to be willing to give up something in return. You can’t expect someone to party every week and still get above 3.7.</p>
<p>Yeah, I mean I am determined to work hard in college and to be quite honest, I’m not the type who likes partying and stuff. If anything, it’ll most likely be procrastination that affects my work.</p>
<p>But yeah, I was just curious about which core courses you would take just to have a decent understanding. Therefore I can perhaps prepare just a little bit now.</p>
<p>Is matlab similar to computer science? And u heard that you don’t start with c++? Is this true</p>
<p>Matlab is more similar to Maple, if you’ve needed that in your high school math classes. Basically think of it as a really advanced way to talk to a calculator, rather than talking to a computer. Unless you take C++ as an elective it is not part of the Mech Eng curriculum.</p>
<p>It is very rare to maintain a 3.7 or greater GPA period, let alone your first couple of semesters, even if you are not a party person. Frankly, your weighted high school GPA is too low to give you likely odds of maintaining those kind of grades, so if you’re thinking premed choose another major.</p>
<p>All SOE first year students take the same curriculum. These are easy enough to find on the site.</p>
<p>Good luck in your future endeavors.</p>
<p>As Novatrixs said, matlab is a lot more simple than C++. When I took matlab, my professor only taught us matlab, but the semester after she started teaching C++ along with matlab. Now the professor has changed so I’m not sure what is being taught. It was a hard course, but any small piece of programming experience will help you in this course. It wasn’t my hardest course because I’ve learned programming before college, but it was very time consuming.</p>