<p>Yea, her roommate took D this fall and liked it.</p>
<p>Foxshox thanks for your advice. Sorry for asking too many questions but I am kind of curious of what I'm going to be getting into next year. I looked at the suggested arrangement of courses for electrical/computer engineering (UT</a> ECE | 2006-2008 Electrical Engineering Curriculum) and it said that M408C and D are taken the first year and M 427K is taken fall semester of the sophomore year. Is this what you did? Also, is PHY 303K Engineering Physics I and PHY 103M Laboratory for Physics 303K hard for someone who knows nothing about physics? I took AP Physics last year but the class was a joke. We didn't learn anything at all so everyone ended up getting a 1 on the AP test. Are you doing computer engineering or electrical engineering? Which field is appropriate for someone wanting to design and build electronics such as cell phones, computers, GPS systems, etc.? I heard that is the job of electronics engineers. Is electronics engineering different than electrical engineering in terms of the courses required or is it the same? Thanks for your help.</p>
<p>I didn't take 408C, I took diffeq 2nd semester of Freshman year. Physics will be difficult for you if you have no AP physics background, the lab is pretty independent of prior knowledge, but is rather a measure of how much you want to put into it. I didn't give a s*** about the lab, so I just took a B and went on my way. I will eventually do Computer Engineering, but right now there is no distinction between the 2 in terms of courses. Computer engineering is probably the best to get into those fields, but those are all very broad categories, and I think you still don't quite have a understanding as to how broad they are and how many different types of computer/electrical engineers it takes to make one cell phone, or one computer. I am not really sure about electronics engineers, but I am pretty sure it falls into one of these categories.</p>
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Don't worry I'm not gonna comment on that :)</p>
<p>Oh ok. Thanks for clearing things up. Also, I was wondering if there are any specific scholarships that UT offers for EE majors? I applied for like 3 of them on the apply texas application but I doubt I have a good chance because they are all pretty broad. I heard that UT offers very little in scholarships. A&M has offered me a $20,000 scholarship ($5000 per year for 4 years). Do you think UT will match this offer? I spoke with an A&M representative and he said that you have to try to bargain with the colleges like you have to take one offer from one school and try to see if another school will match or beat that offer. I do not know how I would do this unless I photocopied the scholarship letter from A&M and mailed it to the scholarship committee at UT. I highly doubt this is the way to do this but I can think of no other way.</p>
<p>No, why would they? A&M has to offer you money to go there, UT has a big ass line of people waiting to come in. There is no incentive to offer you money to come there. You could maybe bargain with like UTD, but UT has plenty of people to take your place if you don't want to go there.</p>
<p>i believe that only works if both schools have offered you a scholarship. i.e. if college A offers you half the tuition and college B offers you a free ride, you might be able to go back to college A and say you like their school better but you've gotten a better scholarship offer elsewhere. but if one college didn't offer you anything, they're not gonna care what other schools offered you because they don't want you bad enough to pay your way.</p>
<p>So more than likely I will not get a scholarship offer from UT Austin?</p>
<p>Not with your stats.</p>
<p>That is disappointing but I guess that is reality! I'm debating on whether or not I should go to UT. A&M is basically offering 1 full year of tuition which is quite tempting. I think I would enjoy UT more though and it has a better engineering program than A&M. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks.</p>
<p>A&M and UT both have great engineering programs. The rankings are really close (if they mean anything) and companies are always looking for grads from there. It depends what you're looking at to decide if it's "better". I would choose the school because of friends and which one feels at home the most. </p>
<p>DP</p>
<p>Electrical/Computer is better at UTD than at A&M, and they will probably offer you more.</p>
<p>Wouldn't it be too late to apply for scholarships at UT Dallas? I can still apply normally but I think the scholarship deadline was Dec. 1st. I don't know. I think I might consider the A&M offer if UT doesn't offer me ANY money at all.</p>
<p>They offer money to everyone, you don't need a scholarship App.</p>
<p>Engineering offers the most scholarships of any school at UT, with the exception maybe of Geosciences. Almost every engineering student I know has some scholarship money (thanks to Mr. Cockerell). That being said, I think they tend away from giving huge scholarship amounts and instead give smaller amounts to more kids.</p>
<p>Most other schools give little/no scholarship money. The College of Liberal Arts, for example, gives 6 full ride scholarships to freshmen, and that's it. Some departments may give money, but not in significant amounts.</p>
<p>The Texas Exes scholarships can be surprising in who gets money, but these tend to be around $500-$2000 a year except for a special few scholarships.</p>
<p>TAMU and UTD are going to give you a lot more money, but they don't have the same caliber of education or quality of life UT does.</p>
<p>^ do you know a lot of engineering students? :)</p>
<p>that's nice to know though...hope I get some even with my above average but not amazing SAT scores</p>
<p>Almost none of the people I know have scholarship money from Engineering dept, so I don't know where you came up with that. They are nowhere near as generous as the Geosciences dept.</p>
<p>I transferred into ECE so my scholarship was most likely based more on my first year grades rather than high school transcript. I have continually received the scholarship since then. Do well your first year and reapply. I know a few others who receive scholarships in the same way.</p>
<p>foxshox, well maybe it's just the engineering students I know, but I know a good number (probably about 20) and almost all of them (all but 1 or 2) received some kind of scholarship from Cockerell. None of them got a full ride. The largest was probably $6,000 a year, and more than a few just got $1,000, but almost all of them got something.</p>
<p>Geosciences is a joke. They take more applicants than any other school at UT and have to bribe those applicants with lots of cash just to convince them to attend as a geosciences major. They give the most money but it's not comparable to the engineering scholarships.</p>
<p>I had a 3.85 after my first year, didn't get a dime.</p>