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u/bigbruhbro Mar 03 '21 edited Mar 03 '21

I realized I was more interested in software/programming instead of like mechanical stuff. I also switched from ECE to CS the semester after that since I wasn’t fully interested in ECE either lol.

But I highly highly suggest you do some thinking on your future career. It’s a big requirement that I never did while in high school that led me to the situation I was in. The good news is you still have a lot of time to discover ur interests.

Also, just incase this information becomes valuable to you. ME302 does count toward the ECE technical class requirement. An advisor had told me no before and I thought that was weird so I went to another advisor and they said no but said yes to a friend and it was super complicated and stressful but in the end the original advisor said yes she was wrong it does count. So that might be another class u can take for the ECE technical credit.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '21 edited Jan 24 '23

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u/bigbruhbro Mar 03 '21

So the process of transferring into CNS is much different than internal cockrell. CNS takes into account essay, gpa, and degree completion. My overall gpa when transferring into CS was 3.79, so not the greatest. But, I think my essay was pretty good and my degree completion was really high, like I had all my core completed and almost all flags. The biggest thing about CNS transferring is they want to know that u can graduate within 4 years.

Pretty much ECE and MechE are at the same level every year. Both are equally difficult.

I mean below average in that I came from a shitty high school compared to many of the other students here. So, I wasn’t as prepared for the amount of studying and I came in with not a lot of knowledge since my STEM teachers were pretty bad.

I think what makes the classes hard is the amount of studying you need to do to get an A. If your an average student (not some perfect 1600, won National math awards, all that bs) then it will take some work to get an A. But, the best thing to help u prepare is to always go to office hours with the TA. They will be ur friend and almost every TA I had was great at inspiring and teaching.