<p>You’ll be fine. If you stay at UH, work with the career center on your resume and interviewing skills, then make sure you keep your GPA high and you’ll have no trouble at all finding a high paying job.</p>
<p>if you can get a good summer internship while at UH, then don’t worry too much about transferring. If you can’t, then you better get your ass to Texas A&M. Their career services is godlike.</p>
<p>UPDATE!! </p>
<p>I just checked online and I got into UT for Chem E! :)</p>
<p>The weird part is Texas A&M just flat out rejected me…lol</p>
<p>Whatever, now I gotta convince my parents to fund me…****
Anyone have good ideas. In example, why the pros far outweigh the cons?</p>
<p>Thanks for the help.</p>
<p>Congratulations, pkuforlife! That’s great news.</p>
<p>I would suggest you do some research on starting salaries and career possibilities for chemical engineering graduates from UT. Figure out how much you could earn to help pay for your education. Worse comes to worst, you could offer to repay your parents part of their investment in you. </p>
<p>There are lots of opportunities for undergrads to do research at Texas. My son is going to start working in the biomedical engineering lab as a second semester freshman. My dad said he has nine undergrads working for him out at the structures lab! So if you want to earn some money and get experience for your resume, you can. </p>
<p>I don’t see any cons in this deal. Are your parents already supporting you? Do they have reservations about your transferring to Texas?</p>
<p>Good luck! Keep us posted on things go for you. Feel free to ask other questions as you think of them.</p>
<p>You could probably earn a football scholarship… they would probably take anyone right now.</p>
<p>LOL, noleguy! I think you’re right. My dad pointed out that on the last three teams that beat Texas, there were only a very few players to whom Mack Brown would have given a scholarship. He’s got a lot of good talent but not doing anything about it. I think Greg Davis is history. It will be interesting to see if Mack “retires” or hangs on for another try.</p>
<p>I don’t think this season puts Mack Brown in jeopardy. He has a history of winning, and just this one bad season.</p>
<p>However, how Rick Barnes still has a job is mind boggling. There isn’t a basketball coach in the country that does so little with so much talent, year in and year out.</p>
<p>MaineLonghorn, Thanks for the support.</p>
<p>As of now, another situation worries me. I had the misfortune of having to drop a course this semester called “Chemical Processes” which is one of the first real Chem E classes. I did this because I was afraid I was going to get a C/D and should have just worked harder to begin with. My question is will this affect my admission? I know that we have to submit another transcript at the end of the semester, so theres no way they would miss a W. If its any compensation, my other classes are all A/B.</p>
<p>If anyone knows how bad this would affect my application, please do tell. Thanks</p>
<p>Please elaborate on the difficulty of chemical processes if you will. I am in this class next semester at UH.</p>
<p>The class invloves a lot of calculations and many problems from the textbook. I treated this class as a math class and thats why it didnt work out. The problems in the textbook are what you need to do over and over because there are various types of them and you need to know what to do in each situation. Study hard from the beginning for the weekly quizzes and make test one a big priority. The average on test one was a 24 this semester (seriously). You should be fine if you do all of those. Good Luck. I might be taking it next semester If i dont transfer to UT. Lol</p>
<p>I have a couple inputs and questions for everyone.</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Do you think its worth transferring if I am looking at an extra year to graduate because of what credits are transferred/new degree plan, etc?</p></li>
<li><p>The tuition issue is not a problem as I spoke to my parents and they are ready to shell out as long as I am confident in my ability to do well there.</p></li>
<li><p>Is it hard to make friends at UT because its such a big school? Guess that goes in the same hand as adjusting. Large classes, easy to never see same person again, etc.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I can answer the second question. I found it very easy to make friends at UT. I went there long ago, but there were still 48,000 students there (as opposed to just over 50,000 now). It’s just your freshman classes that are typically huge, and maybe history and government if you take them later. Your engineering classes will be smaller, and you’ll get to know quite a few people in your department really well. I thought of UT as a big town with lots of little neighborhoods. I spent most of my time in Cockrell Hall and saw the same people daily.</p>
<p>The great thing about UT is that there is always something going on, and if you want to do research as an undergrad, there are lots of opportunities. And the professors are happy to talk to you if you go to their offices. One of my favorite classes at UT was American History. It had over 300 people in it, but the prof was so dynamic that I couldn’t wait to go to his lectures. I’d go talk to him during his office house, and he tried to convince me to switch majors to history!</p>
I have has this same issue Last week I was admitted to UH Industrial Engineering. And I do belive some Uh I included have that low self esteem. And maybe because I don’t live on campus. Either way I had to choose between A&M and Uh I choose UH because I have cheap rent not far from the school. but it depends on the major I kind of regret it because I think UH has a crappy, no good for nothing Industrial Engineering Department. Only 9 falculty and their Ratemyprofeesor reviews are horrible for them all. ( no clue how ima make it) but their other Engineering Progrmas stand up pretty strong to Ut and A&M
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