<p>It seems as if I HAVE to have the third benchmark complete by my junior year, but then am I allowed to spread the remaining courses over the next two years (4th and 5th years)? I want to do this since it’ll allow me to take a couple master
s aerospace courses as an undergrad while giving me time to finish my double major and minor.</p>
<p>The policy is different now, don’t know if it’s updated online (probably not). Anyway, the only benchmark you need to meet is the gateway/45 credit benchmark. Beyond that, as long as you’re making good grades they won’t harp on you.</p>
<p>What’s your primary major?</p>
<p>AWESOME! Well I’m still in HS, but I’ll be entering UMCP with ~55 AP credits, obviously none of them are the 3 engineering courses required for benchmark 1. Would they just make an exception for me, or would I have to cut some AP credits?</p>
<p>Primary Majors: aerospace eng. w/ aeronautics and math</p>
<p>Cut out some AP credits? What do you mean by that? If you come in with AP credits that are not applicable towards your major, that’s fine. </p>
<p>There are no exceptions made for courses they require for benchmarks. However, the advantage of having those extra AP credits (while they don’t count toward your benchmark review) is that AFTER your first semester, you will be able to register for courses sooner than your peers that don’t have as many credits. </p>
<p>The reason I say AFTER the first semester is that signing up for your first semester is done at orientation, and that’s the only level playing field, per se, among your peers. So, the sooner you do orientation, the better for signing up for classes for your first semester (although there is no need to panic about being at the very first orientation since they do hold some seats in reserve for the main core classes and open a few of those seats at each orientation to give everyone a fair shot). Once you have matriculated, your date to meet with your adviser and get cleared to sign up for the spring semester is based on pecking order of credits on record. It doesn’t matter if those credits apply to your major or not. </p>
<p>If you have the right AP scores you can get out of a whole bunch of stuff (<a href=“http://www.tce.umd.edu/APGenEd.pdf”>http://www.tce.umd.edu/APGenEd.pdf</a>). The only engineering course you need to have done by the review is enes100. Sure you have others to get done for the degree, but only enes100 is used for the 45 credit review.</p>
<p>The beauty of the aero program is that it hasn’t changed much in the past decade. You can pretty guarantee when your aero classes will be each semester so you can be opportunistic/contingency plan when trying to fit in more variable courses like partial diffeq or a grad level enae course.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Thanks! Also does anyone know if I can be in the math Master’s program while taking undergrad ENAE courses for my BS in ENAE?</p>
<p>Yes you can. I know a senior aero at UIUC who did just that. That said, he was just taking select grad math courses (some for academic curiosity, some as they related to modeling). Doing the full masters program isn’t as efficient for engineers, unless you’re really an applied math guy with a keen interest aeronautics. </p>