<p>SLO_pop: It is very clear now. Thank you!</p>
<p>I agree with OsakaDad whole-heartedly. Try to keep your workload to 16 units or less per quarter. Engineering Dynamics will eat up your life! My son had that, CHEM 124, CE 204, AERO 215, and PHYS 133, in the same quarter. He said each homework assignment in Dynamics was comprised of about 3 problems, but that each of them took 12 or more hours to complete. The class met 3 times per week. He had hardly any time to do work for his other classes, and was only getting about 2-3 hours sleep per night, if that. For a period of about 3 weeks, he was subsisting on 15 minute naps. That is NOT the way to get your brain to function properly for work and exams.</p>
<p>With regard to GPA’s, average AERO GPA is 2.8. I understand that they are in the process of a full curriculum review for AERO, which is likely to affect the flowchart. My son was the Valedictorian of his high school class with over a 4.0 GPA. He’s struggling to maintain the AERO average, but is LOVING his major and Cal Poly. They want you to graduate in 4 years, but realistically, the engineering majors will probably need at least one additional quarter.</p>
<p>Speaking from experience being a Cal Poly student, workload really depends on which professor you decide to take the class with. Through out the years at Cal Poly (I was a transfer student), strategically picking professors (check polyratings.com) can ease up individual course’s workload, and also have spare time to to work on other classes. </p>
<p>Take EE402 (electromagnetic waves) example. It is a 400 level senior required core course for all EE majors. There are usually two instructors teaching it in the fall quarter: Ahlgren and Arakaki. Almost everyone in the EE dept. would burn a priority just to get into Ahlgren’s section. Why? Because his exams are Scantron based and the final is optional. A lot of students simply study for a few hours prior to the exam and walk out with close to a perfect score. On the other hand, with Arakaki, even if the student studies 25-35+ hours a week just on that one class alone, it would considered to be their lucky day to score a 60% on their exam.</p>