College advice

[johnjbruin]

I know for a fact that UCLA does not allow doing double majors within engineering.

I just had to take 5 extra EE classes and I would have a double major in CS&E and EE. But they said NO. They do allow double majoring with anything else. Like CS&E and Math. You just cant pick two engineering fields.

 

[Mo0o]

You dont seem to be aiming that high, i would try to apply to atleast one good school and maybe Purdue ( i hear they have a good engineering program). Obviously a safety school is a must. Dont sell yourself short in terms of MIT, you might as well, it's 60 bucks for a chance at another route for the rest of your life.

 

[dym]

Let me tell you my story.
I got a EE degree 2 years ago (did it in 3 years)
Loved college life so I stayed for another 2 degrees (which is Math and Chemistry)...
Have been having good grades, but I still think that I know nothing...
Any engineering program is hard, if you do want to study for the knowledge, not just grades.

 

[dym]

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek

Originally posted by: FleshLight
How do you take Calc AP over the summer?

Well good because MAth is probably one of my best subjects, dont even have to study it... show it to me and i know it.

-Kevin

Hmm, you sounded like a young guy. Let me show you some "reall analysis" problems to see if you can do it... :laugh:

Math is easy up to Cal 3 or differential equation. Anything beyond that is hard. You'll feel like killing yourself just because you don't know wat to do with one of your homework problems.

Good luck with your decision.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

How hard would it be do to a major in some sort of engineering course relating to computers and at the same time a minor in spanish and business?

Those are the three main things I'd like to pursue later in life. If I did those courses over 5 years, would it be easier to do than cramming it all into 4 years?

At least right now I'm planning on getting an MBA after that

Just thoughts right now, I'm a junior in HS

 

[Merlyn3D]

In retrospect, I kinda wish I had picked another major that was equally lucrative that I knew I could geta higher GPA in. EE is friggin hard, and I went from a ~4.0 high school GPA to ~3.0 in college and struggling hard.

 

[simms]

Originally posted by: dym

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek

Originally posted by: FleshLight
How do you take Calc AP over the summer?

Well good because MAth is probably one of my best subjects, dont even have to study it... show it to me and i know it.

-Kevin

Hmm, you sounded like a young guy. Let me show you some "reall analysis" problems to see if you can do it... :laugh:

Math is easy up to Cal 3 or differential equation. Anything beyond that is hard. You'll feel like killing yourself just because you don't know wat to do with one of your homework problems.

Good luck with your decision.

God, don't remind me. I have a triple integral test with cylindrical coords and spherical coords with ... ugh. Makes me sick. (Calc III)

 

[flawlssdistortn]

Don't make the mistake of getting all wet over the prospect of MIT, Purdue, Champaign... Look, there are A LOT of "good" engineering schools. Just cause it's ranked high in the Princeton review doesn't mean dick. Undergrad is undergrad, you're gonna learn the same thing anywhere. Anyway, an undergrad degree in electrical engineering is VERY general. You'll still have a lot of options as to where you want to focus. Grad school is when you get to the real stuff.

 

[timosyy]

Interesting.

Looking over your GPA and course selections makes me think I have a chance at some of those colleges you listed =p.

<-- Senior, going into Computer Engineering, need to apply ... soon.

3.3 GPA, 1430SAT, 8 AP's (Physics C, Calc, CompSci, all that good stuff). Fairfax county so 94-100 grading scale. GPA is due to the straight C's in Spanish (seriously .. i'm not going to be coding in spanish. bleh.)

Not even sure I can get into Tech, though =p. Cornell called before and I told them to take me off their list cause my GPA is nowhere near enough for them. Penn State prolly "backup" .. and I think i'm being overly confident there. Really, really want CMU. Happening? doubt it. Though they did call 4 times before ... was in New York at the time though >_<.

 

[LS20]

Originally posted by: sciencewhiz
Double majoring in EE and CE is virtually worthless for 2 reasons.

There is a lot of overlap. 75% of EE jobs can be done by a CE and vice versa.

In the extra time that it takes to get the dual degrees, you could almost get a masters degree in either area, and you will know more and get paid a lot better.

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
It's not just basic layouts and sound cards and whatnot. It's hardcore physics, math, and engineering.

2 best advice on here

and, this ones for me:

Originally posted by: bradruth

I post here and you couldn't pay me enough to major in something computer related.

 

[Gamingphreek]

Well VATECH and NCSTATE 99% of there students had a 3.0GPA or better.

Basically what i want to major in is what the editors know lol. In a nut shell, i want to know the processors michroarchitecture, and also about how the energy relates to it.

What should my majors be then? Computer Science and Electrical Engineering or COmputer Enginnering and something else?

-Kevin

 

[SP33Demon]

Have you looked into a scholarship opp for your baseball skills? :beer: for high school baseball, some of the best times of my life!

 

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by: simms

Originally posted by: dym

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek

Originally posted by: FleshLight
How do you take Calc AP over the summer?

Well good because MAth is probably one of my best subjects, dont even have to study it... show it to me and i know it.

-Kevin

Hmm, you sounded like a young guy. Let me show you some "reall analysis" problems to see if you can do it... :laugh:

Math is easy up to Cal 3 or differential equation. Anything beyond that is hard. You'll feel like killing yourself just because you don't know wat to do with one of your homework problems.

Good luck with your decision.

God, don't remind me. I have a triple integral test with cylindrical coords and spherical coords with ... ugh. Makes me sick. (Calc III)

I remember those... not that bad compared to solving partial differential equations. It gets worse with courses like topology (sp?) and dynamic chaotic systems...

 

[vshah]

Apply to CMU. I got into ECE here with a 3.3 gpa...
I also had a bunch APs and "all that good stuff" you mentioned, we seem pretty similar in that respect.

Good luck anyways

-Vivan

 

[Gibson486]

Originally posted by: sciencewhiz
Double majoring in EE and CE is virtually worthless for 2 reasons.

There is a lot of overlap. 75% of EE jobs can be done by a CE and vice versa.

In the extra time that it takes to get the dual degrees, you could almost get a masters degree in either area, and you will know more and get paid a lot better.

bingo...I actually used to be a dual EE and CE. It is not worth the extra trouble at all. I dropped the dual and became a pure EE.

If you want to specialize in computers, you could take computer engineering and you will take some computer engineering courses like computer architecture. Trust me, specilaizing in Electronics is boring as hell....However, you could also take EE and take some CE electives (you will probably be required to take 1 or 2). Taking EE can broaden your horizons more b/c you take teh extras like electromgnetic fields....CE used to be specializatiuon in electronics, but that is slowly becoming untrue to too the industries demand for engineers to be well rounded in everything.

All Engineering is a hard. However, I thought Calc 3 was pretty easy (triples integrals, no porb). Differential Equations, though.....geesh, that wa sone hard class. I had a 45 avg. in that class and ended up with a B-.

 

[no0b]

Right now I am an EE sophmore, Freshman year was easy as all hell. Mainly because every class in college was a repeat of my courses in HS (Thank you AP calc, AP chem, AP physics). However sophmore year is insane just to compare some things. My circuits course a 4 credit hour course each problem takes on average 2hours to do and we have about 6 to do each week. My statics course (50% of the students dropped it) which is also 4 credit hours is twice as hard as ME's statics course and their statics course is their drop out course, I just laugh at my ME roomates. Even the proffessor has openly complained how the statics course is way too demanding.

Next semester isn't look good either I will be in 2 circuits courses, 3 labs, diffyQ, and wave physics.

Everymorning I get up and Question why I'm in EE then I question why I'm in college.