<p>I'm a sophomore at a community college, and I have just hit a major road block. I had an extremely poor showing for the fall semester, and while I don't know my exact standing GPA wise for this semester, I am certain it will be absolutely horrible.</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<p>High School
GPA: about a 2.0
ACT: 26, 30
SAT: 1260</p>
<p>The incomplete and the F are in key engineering transfer classes. My GPA in-major was over 3.5, but that has gone up in smoke.</p>
<p>I have no excuses. The material is mind numbingly easy, and there is really no way I can express my shame. Even my first semester was lackluster when you consider the fact that this is community college. My biggest problem has been motivation. It's just so hard to be excited about school when you know the quality of the education you're receiving is far below that of your peers. Community colleges teach physics and math in a very formulaic manner, whereas students at good schools have to learn solid quantitative skills to survive.</p>
<p>Here is the list of engineering schools I was looking at prior to the fall semester:
Michigan, Illinois-UC, Wisconsin, Purdue, Michigan State</p>
<p>Is there any way I can salvage my academic career, and get into a few of the schools on that list?</p>
<p>1 F? Can you retake that 1F? I know that community colleges often offer the chance of grade replacement.</p>
<p>Your college gpa is good, though, considering that you have been having a downward trend; its still good for Wisconsin (maybe), Purdue, and MSU. However, I would try to get some of those scores fixed, especially the 1 incomplete and 1 F.</p>
<p>Because you have to submit fall semester grades for transfer consideration, there is simply no way I can get that F off my transcript in time. I’m retaking both courses (incomplete, F), so I should be able to fire off a midterm report prior to the adcoms final decision, but I’m not sure how it will work out in the end.</p>
<p>What F was that course in…if it was a pre-req course that wont sit well with admissions at all…Your going to have to explain in essay form why you got the F and tell them you are taking the course over and are doing much better now…good thing is while the schools you are applying to are good schools they are not overly selective (exception michigan=moderately selective) so it think you have a good shot with a good explanation</p>
<p>If I could get a 4.0 next semester and send in a midterm report to all schools what would my chances at UIUC and Michigan be?</p>
<p>I’ve done a lot of reading since high school, and my vocabulary has increased. I could probably retake the SAT and get around a 2000-2100. Should I look into doing this?</p>
<p>The F was in the second of two Engineering Physics courses… Yeah, I know that sucks. The incomplete was in Differential Equations too.</p>
<p>I’ve done well in my other math/engineering course, but this semester really sunk me.</p>
<p>Edit:
“Since you are at a community college, why dont you take the course over in the winter? Most community colleges offer a winter interterm.”</p>
<p>Unfortunately my college does not offer an interim semester.</p>
<p>well you could say the CC is sucking the life out of you, but colleges don’t want to hear that. I’m too currently downward spiraling, but not such a dramatic, but nonetheless hurting my dream school chances…</p>
<p>I ran the numbers, and my projected GPA (engineering) will be very close to a 3.01</p>
<p>My GPA overall should be about a 3.2-3.3</p>
<p>Would this still give me a shot at Wisconsin? I realize the overall school is not terribly selective, but I’m trying to get into the mechanical engineering program, and I imagine they would apply higher standards to the engineers.</p>
<p>i guess if you kill for spring '08 semester(i mean 3.7+) and submit a mid semester grade estimate(even if they dont require one) you can point that out in the essays and how the fall sem was a fluke. your sat is good but it becomes increasingly irrelevent as you go along in ur college career. as far as motivation goes…just think of the (tens of) thousands of $$$$ your spending for a higher education. why are you handing over that money just so you can fail?get your moneys worth.go see a professor after class to talk about grades.go to a seminar/job fair on engineering(called engineering roundtable here @ Purdue). just dont sit around and let college pass you by.</p>
<p>Do you think I could get into Purdue’s engineering school? How competitive are the engineering students versus non-engineers? Also, on a personal note, what is the predominant political affiliation of the students at Purdue?</p>
<p>I grew up in western Michigan, and although I’m open to many different viewpoints I seriously need to go someplace more liberal.</p>
<p>contrary to popular belief, there are more liberal arts majors than engineering majors at Purdue. in my opinion engineering is competitive, but not as much as Krannert(the biz school). the engineering job fairs are much bigger compared to Krannerts, and thats part of the reason why im transferring. the prevailing thought at Purdue is “engineering or bust”, and i really cant argue against that. on another note, they just finished building the neil armstrong engineering building-which is kinda frustrating, b/c it feels like they spend millions expanding the engineering program at the expense of more pressing needs on campus. as far as politics go, it depends. i’m not part of any political org. or club, but from what i see it is mostly republican, though democrats are well represented. even though they are mostly repubs i dont think they like bush-my instructors call him “nitwit”, “idiot guy” lol-there is a great divide between the liberal arts majors and engineering majors and its sooo clear in the way they act, talk, hang out, etc. as far as diversity goes, people from around the country and world(mostly korea and india) come for the enigneering programs. outside of those majors there is little diversity…</p>