AznMaverick
Platinum Member
i'd like to think EE makes me feel better when i fail a test.
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What do you think is the hardest undergraduate Major?
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AznMaverick
Platinum Member
are you kidding me?!
AznMaverick
Platinum Member
so bioengin. is a lot harder than EE?
vegetation
Diamond Member
Yep, get B's and that will hurt your chances pretty badly. If you get a C in any premed class then kiss your chances of med school goodbye.
loup garou
Lifer
Biomedical engineering with a focus in bioelectrics. If you want to make it even harder, take Organic Chem so you can fill all the reqs for med school.
Hardest in general is probably some engineering. I am not sure if the consensus would be CE/EE, it may just be here because that is what so many of us are doing. For example, I would hate probably all of the other engineerings and would do awful and would consider them more difficult than CE/EE.
I doubt you could consider any subjective class as the hardest major since you can kiss up sometimes to get preferential grading while with something objective, the work speaks for itself.
I think nursing is no walk in the park also.
I doubt you could consider any subjective class as the hardest major since you can kiss up sometimes to get preferential grading while with something objective, the work speaks for itself.
I think nursing is no walk in the park also.
I highly doubt that. I'm a biomedical engineer (although I realize it's not the not the same as biochem) and the EE curriculum is much harder. I already have to take many of the same classes as biochem (full year of freshman bio, upper class bio, full year of freshman chem, full year of organic chem, etc.) Even then I will have to concede EE is harder...just the subject of electricity is hard already, then they have to take a buttload of physics beyond what us life science engineers have to take.
I'm both in BME and in premed. Premed is brutal indeed because of the competition. However, the thing that I find annoying is how those regular Premeds (the ones majoring in non engineering, notably biology) take easier classes than me in some premed subjects. Such as physics; we take "general physics 201" series which is much harder than their "college physics 101" series. General is calculus based, and it's a weedout class to really identify those who really want to be in engineering. Then we have to take "Organic Chemistry for Engineering" which is basically 3 quarters of regular OChem reduced in two quarters. Premeds have it easy compared to engineering premeds.
Fvck me 🙁
GTaudiophile
Lifer
Nuclear Physics majors seemed to be pretty rare at Georgia Tech.
blahblah99
Platinum Member
Another vote for EE!
Pretty much any engineering major are the most difficult compared to others.
Pretty much any engineering major are the most difficult compared to others.
Siddhartha
Lifer
Perhaps choosing an engineering program as a premed major is not the best strategy for trying to get in Medical school.
Very very very person (and of course school) dependent. For the creatively inert (such as myself) a hardcore literature/poetry major would be simply evil..... however, for the art-sy types, a pure mathematics or physics would be the bane of their existence.
Most of the engineering majors demand quite a bit of WORK... it depends on how you define "hard". There are very few majors who spend as much time doing homework/classwork as an engineer at a good technical school. As far as the hardest engineering majors, it really depends. A "power" electrical engineer can be much easier than a "VLSI"-based EE degree... just as a "nuts and bolts" ME degree is much easier than a mechanics (read: mathematically-based) focus in ME. (for the record, I did ME at NCSU.... and things were REALLY what you made of it.... if you chose to take the "right" professor for certain classes, you could drastically change the focus and difficulty of the course)
All in all.... I would worry the most about your weaknesses--that's what's going to be hardest for you.
Most of the engineering majors demand quite a bit of WORK... it depends on how you define "hard". There are very few majors who spend as much time doing homework/classwork as an engineer at a good technical school. As far as the hardest engineering majors, it really depends. A "power" electrical engineer can be much easier than a "VLSI"-based EE degree... just as a "nuts and bolts" ME degree is much easier than a mechanics (read: mathematically-based) focus in ME. (for the record, I did ME at NCSU.... and things were REALLY what you made of it.... if you chose to take the "right" professor for certain classes, you could drastically change the focus and difficulty of the course)
All in all.... I would worry the most about your weaknesses--that's what's going to be hardest for you.
Michael
Elite member
Finance, Accounting, and "Business" are easier than the different engineering majors. You can tell by the fact that the people who can't cut it in engineering usually fall back into Finance (math and a chance at a high paying job) and they usuualy start getting great marks again.
MIS is easier than Finance and Accounting. Accounting probably is a little harder than Finance, but they get so blended together that it is hard to completely seperate them.
There is no such major as "Pre Med".
The Arts majors may seem simpler, but the marking scale is much mor subjective and they usually really strain your ability to write well. It is probably as hard to maintain a high GPA (as a proportional basis) in an Arts major as it is in a Science major. The fact that there is often no one correct answer in many Arts-based courses makes it difficult at times.
Michael
MIS is easier than Finance and Accounting. Accounting probably is a little harder than Finance, but they get so blended together that it is hard to completely seperate them.
There is no such major as "Pre Med".
The Arts majors may seem simpler, but the marking scale is much mor subjective and they usually really strain your ability to write well. It is probably as hard to maintain a high GPA (as a proportional basis) in an Arts major as it is in a Science major. The fact that there is often no one correct answer in many Arts-based courses makes it difficult at times.
Michael
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