UCLA Engineering Q&A

<p>just wanted to say that I am at UCLA right now doing EE...so if you guys have any questions, hit me up</p>

<p>Hey Citan you have any ideas/helpful insights on the above post?</p>

<p>Citan, as an EE major, how would you consider the difficulty of your upper division courses? Which were some of the harder lower division courses from your option's curriculum?</p>

<p>Being ELC doesn't help very much -- most UCLA students already have ELC. :rolleyes:</p>

<p>What about the extracurricular standings of the applicants? Also have they taken and passed many AP classes? It seems as though HSSEAS wants only the highest numbers on standardized tests and not the most well-rounded students. Is it just me or are the HSSEAS admissions standards incomparably more difficult than those of the university?</p>

<p>Also it's interesting that you mention almost all UCLA students are ELC...well that makes sense being that they're already accepted. What about the applicants to HSSEAS? Are they all ELC to begin with?</p>

<p>Flopsy:</p>

<p>Is repeating of courses within the HSSEAS mandatory that they be at UCLA?</p>

<p>littleitaly: I don't know much about freshman admissions...since I was admitted as a transfer student</p>

<p>boelterhall: I am going to start taking upper division starting winter...but the two EE lower division I took were not that difficult. I think the difficulty level somewhat depends on the professor, at least in terms of the grades you get. The subject matter is always difficult, but the final grade you get depends a lot on the curve, grading scale etc. which depends on the professor.</p>

<p>I literally laughed out loud when I saw that Smallberg sent us E-mails with our CS31 grades in the form of a program..</p>

<p>ahh CSE is so silly.</p>

<p>There are a lot of girls in chemical engineering compared to the other engineering fields in my opinion. In my thermodynamics class (15), about 1/3 were girls. In my transport class (70), 1/8. In my processes class (100), about 1/3 also. </p>

<p>My roommate in EE has only 1 girl out of a class of 70. </p>

<p>Engineering tends to be a male-dominated field due to the stereotype of the non-feminine women. However, at UCLA, as the MyUCLA image states, "Nobody cares who you are, they care only what you do."</p>

<ul>
<li>TB54 (Glutton For Chemical Engineering Pain)</li>
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<p>P.S. - The Chemical Engineers and Biomolecular (Biochemical) Engineers have to take the same fundamental upper division classes, only branching off in senior year.</p>

<p>in my EE classes only 1-2 chicks....most of the chicks I hear are in either CS, ME or ChemE....</p>

<p>Flopsy in all honesty what are my chances looking like for CS/CSE with a 2040?</p>

<p>Yes, HSSEAS prioritizes numerical statistics over everything else, because the well-rounded "normal" students are the most likely to fail and/or switch out of HSSEAS. Every university's engineering department does that.</p>

<p>Most engineers I've met have gotten 4/5 on AP Calculus BC, and 4/5 in AP Physics and/or AP Chemistry. As for ECs, they usually have played a musical instrument (piano/violin), and are CSF members. I don't know about the ELC status of applicants as opposed to admits, since I've only met those who've been accepted (in person, at least), which makes sense. People who are rejected from UCLA tend to disappear from College Confidential forever.</p>

<p>littleitaly:</p>

<p>UCLA: Reach (Engineering, SAT I only)
UCLA: Slight Reach (Engineering, whole picture)</p>

<p>How terrible is Rohr? I'm retaking CS31 after a quarter with Smallberg. Would I be able to do fine with Rohr? Are projects going to be similar ? ..</p>

<p>Prof. Rohr is an average lecturer. He's the worst out of the CS 31/32/33 lecturers, but since all three are above-average overall, it's not saying much. One thing I like is that Prof. Rohr uses projector overheads in addition to the blackboard, while Prof. Smallberg only uses the blackboard. All three lecturers assign the same projects to ensure fairness. :rolleyes:</p>

<p>How would assignment be same winter quarter? Only Rohr is teaching CS 31 for winter. Anyways, who is the author for all the projects, assuming not all teach during the same quarter ?</p>

<p>What I meant was that the projects are shared among all professors during each quarter, but they also change every quarter. The authors of the projects are the CS 31/32/33 professors, who collaborate to write them as a group. :rolleyes:</p>

<p>By the way Flopsy thanks for your feedback I really appreciate it! Well SATs aside I think my app is pretty competitive. I was a national merit commended student, which means my PSAT scores were good but they probably don't care about that...also I got a 4 on AP physics and I can almost guarantee 5s on both AP Calc and AP Computer Science, but obviously HSSEAS doesn't see those scores. As for ECs I'm also well-rounded. I'm editor-in-chief of my yearbook staff, manage the school basketball team, NHS treasurer, CSF, working at the soup kitchen forever, clubs yadda yadda. </p>

<p>I thought my essays were terrific because I talked about being motivated and enthusiastic about CS (and I am) and how I taught myself Java over the summer and such. Also I talked about being not the smartest of all people but the hardest worker (all A's during high school...as a result of my work ethic). Unfortunately I felt pretty dejected because every university would want a "well rounded" student, but I feel that one lousy test score doesn't do my academic potential justice. Can HSSEAS see beyond a lousy number?</p>

<p>If I was HSSEAS, I wouldn't necessarily associate one's ability to do well on a standardized test with motivation and/or work ethic. A 2040 isn't by any means low, in fact it's 47 points higher that that of the average UCLA freshman. I would hate to have that one score bring me down...</p>

<p>ugh now I'm really nervous
would you mind ranking the difficulty of different engineer majors
from easiest to hardest?</p>

<p>I'm sure Flopsy should concur:</p>

<p>Lower Tier:
Civil Engineering
Materials Engineering</p>

<p>Mid Tier:
Aerospace Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Bioengineering</p>

<p>Higher Tier:
Computer Science
Computer Science and Engineering
Electrical Engineering</p>

<p>Peachiexice, what major did you apply to?</p>

<p>chemical
i hear its death/near death.
and im not exactly the I-love-learning-so-much type...more like the I-do-minimal-work-to-get-A's type :[</p>