<p>I am currently in my first quarter of my freshman year. Georgia Tech was my first choice but I was not admitted as a freshman. My intended major is Industrial Engineering, and I am attempting to transfer for my Sophomore year. </p>
<p>So far I have completed 2 college courses (3.8 GPA):</p>
<p>Micro Economics 101: A
Chem 101: A-</p>
<p>I am enrolled for:
Calc I
Physics I
Foundations of Engineering
Physics Lab</p>
<p>I have already achieved the English I and II requirements through AP credits in high school, and I will achieve the Calc requirements in the ensuing quarters. </p>
<p>My main question is do I apply for fall admission? It says the document deadline is July 1st, so does that mean that I will be able to enroll for the Fall. Obviously since I am a freshman it will take me this entire year to reach the 45 quarter credits required.</p>
<p>Also assuming I keep that 3.8 GPA that I have achieved in the two courses, will I be competitive for Industrial Engineering?</p>
<p>You’ll apply for fall and you’ll get in with the min course requirements done and min GPA. You’ll start in the fall, although you want to get all of yor documents in ASAP so you aren’t scrambling to get started in the fall.</p>
<p>Pretty much. If you meet their minimum requirements, you are strongly competitive for admission. 3.8 far exceeds them (3.3 in-state for ISyE, 3.5 out of state). Are you in-state or out of state? If you’re international, I dunno.</p>
<p>I am an out of state student. I have another question, if just meet the requirements will I be behind by a lot? Basically if I end up too far behind (like a semester) I might as well not transfer…</p>
<p>Do you mean behind in terms of getting your degree on time? Of course not, if you’re taking courses that transfer. If not, that’s up to you to figure out. The GT website has all kinds of info for transfer students, including a database to look up which courses transfer from your school. Some schools won’t be in the database, and not every class at every school in the database is shown, but you can use common sense to figure out which courses are going to transfer. If they are very common general ed courses like Calc and Chem, they will most likely transfer. Compare that to the degree plan and see how you end up. If you can’t stomach an extra semester in college for an excellent degree from an excellent school - stay where you are.</p>
<p>By behind I meant in terms of courses. I am at a school that doesn’t offer industrial engineering (specifically the Economic and Financial Systems track) so I didn’t know if the courses I am taking would be applicable. But I ended up looking at the track itself so I am going to try to take some of the suggested courses on that track, so at least I’ll be caught up if/when I get to campus…</p>
<p>You’ll just have to play with their transfer course evaluation page and figure out which classes you can take that will A) apply to your major and B) transfer. Just make sure your course requirements are filled up. There are a bunch of general classes you can take that are required for the ISyE major like; ISyE requires Computer Science, General Psychology, Accounting, Physics 2, and another lab science (like Chem 2 since you took Chem 1). This should be more than enough to fill your next semester and knock out your course requirements so you won’t be behind at all.</p>
<p>Of course, make sure it’s all going to transfer - the courses I listed should not be too much trouble in terms of transferring given their standard nature.</p>
<p>You may not be in a position to answer this, but I was planning on talking to my academic advisor here and telling them the schools that I want to transfer to. I assume they will know how all these things work better than I do. My question is should I also contact Georgia Tech’s transfer advisor and ask their opinion on courses? Or is their focus the current students?</p>
<p>Neither of them will be able to tell you which courses will transfer and which won’t if it’s not on the transfer equivalency page. GT only evaluates credits when they receive your official transcripts. Your academic advisers shouldn’t be able to give you any more info on that than what’s on the transfer equivalency page. Basically, before you register for a course, check the equivalency page. If it’s not on there, it means nobody has tried to transfer that course from your school. There is no way to evaluate it without simply trying to transfer the course. You can use some common sense on this one, though. If it is a very standard class, like Calculus 1, you can safely assume it will transfer as long as it is normal Calculus 1.</p>
<p>I can tell you based on my observations that Foundations of Engineering probably won’t transfer(don’t run off and drop it, your GPA in classes that don’t transfer is still considered in your transfer GPA - and it will probably be a beneficial class), but Calc, Physics, Chem, and Microeconomics should all transfer. Note that I’m not an employee at Tech, but someone who’s transferred credit before and is in the process of transferring to Tech. Don’t consider my answers to be official!</p>
<p>Basically, look at the transfer course requirements and take those classes. If those classes don’t fill your schedule, look at the degree plan on Tech’s website and find some 100-200 level classes - see if any of them have transferred from your school before, and take those. If you still haven’t filled your schedule, look at those same 100-200 level classes that haven’t been transferred to tech from your school before, and take classes with the same course name… the more standard the better. Calc is Calc at most schools, Chem is Chem at most schools, you get the idea.</p>
<p>Thanks for your help, that make sense. I was required to take that foundations of engineering class anyways so I wouldn’t drop it anyways. I am going to try to schedule my next 2 quarters to incorporate some of those courses, so I can at least be on par with the rest of the students in their second year of Industrial Engineering.</p>