<p>hm that is an excellent suggestion. Would it be worthwhile to minor or double major in one of the sciences with an economics degree? And if I were to pure this degree should I still try to get involved in research?</p>
<p>If you’re interested in research, I don’t see why not. It can only help your application to med school but I have trouble seeing why any professor would want an econ major to be working in the lab with him/her. The fact that you’re not majoring in any related science is a red flag, and remember the professor has to dedicate time to teaching you and whatnot so… being an econ major wouldn’t be so great in helping to convince researchers that you’re willing to take it seriously.</p>
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<p>Going from GPC to GT does obviously give you an opportunity for internships, however you are either going to have to attend GT in the summer or delay graduation if you come from GPC. In engineering, major classes will not transfer from GPC, so to complete the prerequisite sequence you will need more than 4 semesters.</p>
<p>As far as GPA’s go, you clearly have no idea what you’re saying. Suggesting that it is common for GPC transfers to have a 3.5 is laughable. Perhaps you should stick to areas where you actually do have first hand knowledge of the material.</p>
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<p>You’ll want to take a look at the Econ class load and the pre-med requirements and then plan your next several years of classes. Then look at the chemistry and biology minor/double major requirements and see if those can be added without adding extra time to your degree. If one fits in, great. If not, don’t worry too much about it.</p>
<p>Major classes don’t transfer? You clearly have no idea. I’m not here to squabble with people on the internet about these things, you can read this on the RETP (which is specifically designed to have all classes transfer) section of GaTech’s site. That’s all I’m going to say about the matter.</p>
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<p>The painful part is that you’re the misguided one. RETP transfers all classes AND major classes don’t transfer because as an RETP student, you don’t take major classes at the first university. You take your engineering major classes at GT. All together in 2 years (compared to someone admitted to GT who would take them spread out over 3.5 years).</p>
<p>RETP students have a below 3.0 GPA on average because 1) the engineering average GPA average is below 3.0 and 2) because RETP students tend to perform worse than other students, which isn’t surprising considering that RETP students are predominately students that were rejected from GT as freshman. And don’t misunderstand that - I’m saying that when you compare two groups of students, and one is predominately lower performing high school students than the other, that group will have predominately under performing college students compared to the other. There’s only a small amount of causation, but there’s a ton of correlation.</p>
<p>But I’m not here to play the “transfer students are inferior” game. I’m simply making the point that you shouldn’t expect to transfer from a community college to GT then sleep your way through to highest honors in 2 years. It doesn’t work like that and telling people it does is dishonest.</p>
<p>Oops! I know I didn’t want to get back in this but I misunderstood. I don’t know why ‘major classes’ looked like ‘any engineering classes’ to me.</p>
<p>Perhaps I’m just arguing this from a limited perspective. It doesn’t seem such a difficult thing to me honestly… summer classes aren’t difficult to take, neither is an extra class per semester. Maybe it’s difficult for some people. It’s definitely do-able because I know people who have done it. That doesn’t mean I’m backtracking on my statements previously, I still think they’re true in some sense because I got them straight from the source, but I’m willing to accept that there may be some confusion (as there always is with statistics).</p>
<p>Regardless, if you transfer to GT (and I guess I’ll revise my statement here), it’s possible to do really well if you manage time very well. According to statistics, though, you won’t so it’s a better idea to stay at UGA (and to not do engineering).</p>
<p>Hope this settles a few things…</p>
<p>Hey again! It’s been a while. Ultimately I decided to scratch the premed idea. I don’t have a true passion for medicine, so why suffer through my years of school? I’m now ultimately deciding between math+econ or math+comp sci. I’m not sure if math is a good major, but it’s always been my true passion and hopefully combined with one of the two other majors, I can get myself into a lucrative career/position.</p>
<p>Thanks again for all of the help.</p>
<p>Math is a great major because it can be applied to so many different things. However, you should be warned that frosh calculus is nothing like real proof-based math. You’ll definitely do well with a math degree, it’s one of the best degrees to get in my opinion (and will make you very attractive to employers).</p>
<p>Umm…as I always say…I will be biased, but…</p>
<p>The Math/Computer Science major is a KICK A** major. I would recommend that is you do choose Math/CS as a major, try to look at the schools that have either “Computer Science options”, Applied Math options or Computational Math options. Those types of programs will reduce the number of the proof-based Math courses that Hadsed mentioned.</p>
If you’re still on here, can you tell me how this worked out for you? My son is somewhat in the same boat…really wants to attend UGA and major in mech eng. Would a degree from GA Tech be alot better? We hear the uga program is growing significantly. He’s a rising HS senior so is likely 5+ years from his degree.