<p>Hey everyone. I'm a pre-med and I'm currently majoring in engineering. I didn't think I'd do well this term but I ended up getting a 3.89 GPA.</p>
<p>I've been considering switching to an easier humanities major but I'm unsure now! xD Would someone be able to offer some advice? Maybe I'll be able to do well in engineering but then again, these are only the introductory classes - things are going to get hard, fast. Thanks everyone.</p>
<p>The classes I took were:
physics A-
chemistry A-
calc I A+
history A-
language A
intro to engineering A</p>
<p>Depends - what interests you? Don’t go by which is easier, go by which you like more. You’ll likely get better grades in engineering classes that you love than in humanities classes you hate.</p>
Not always true. DD and several of her friends are in the pre-med track with a biology flavor. Most of them despised many of the non-STEM courses required to get their degree, but their grade point was invariably higher in these courses. When pre-meds and others are in a humanities course, pre-meds are typically a lot more conscious of their grades than the others, and none of the courses they took was so rigorous that they needed real interest or talent to get good grades.</p>
<p>Back to OP’s question - Your current GPA looks solid, and if you can maintain something close to it, it shouldn’t be a handicap. As to xferring to the humanities, I don’t have any first-hand knowledge, but I’ve heard that while GPA is very significant in landing an interview, science GPA is weighted more than overall GPA, and this may add another dimension to your dilemma.</p>
<p>Alright yes, you are right about premeds in humanities courses. I obviously misphrased my statement. It should have said: you’ll likely get better grades in an engineering major you love than in a humanities major you hate.</p>
<p>Of course, pre-meds shopping humanities courses for “easy A” courses may avoid some courses required for humanities majors that are not that easy, or require voluminous amounts of reading or huge term papers or whatever.</p>
<p>This happens in science courses as well. Pre-meds usually take the not-as-hard versions of chemistry, organic chemistry, physics, and math for biology majors, not chemistry for chemistry and chemical engineering majors, physics for physics and engineering majors, and math for math, physics, and engineering majors (unless they are majoring in those subjects).</p>