So I heard that some students who commit to engineering at Tech take a certain science course at a community college the summer before their freshman year at tech. Supposedly people do it because the class at Tech is killer. Does anyone know anything about what course this is or how to do it at another school with a transfer credit or something?
Just bite the bullet and take the class at Tech. You will learn more. Community colleges, some are good , some are not, but you will simply learn a lot less if you take any science course at a CC. Tech has great science teachers! Why not take the class from the BEST out there? If its O Chem, then thats about being a premedical student. Its a game that students who want to get admitted to a US Medical school play.
Think about being a scientist, attorney, business person or engineer and you can avoid the games doctors play. Its stupid because O Chem is not that hard,its simply memorizing a lot of reactions with Cs Hs and Os. Bite the bullet and take the harder version at Tech. (but yes, premeds have a huge problem, how to get a slot at a medical school, not to underestimate that game ! The AMA needs to build more medical schools and get rid of the elitist medical system in the USA that eliminates thousands of students from studying medicine. ). Off my soap box.
I don’t have GT specific info but I would think they would frown on that. The strategy makes sense, though, in certain situations imho. I would not like my son doing it in courses which are important to his major. I’ve heard that GT likes their students to learn the GT way.
If it was English Comp for my computer science kid . . . OK. But for a math course, or certain science courses, I’d be more nervous.
The first courses in engineering math and general chemistry can be very challenging for a number of reasons. However, there is nothing stopping you from learning and knowing all that material cold before the first day of your freshman class except the amount of time required. A convenient community college could be a great way to get that done.