Chemical Engineering Substitution

cameraphone
Sat, 22 Jun 2013 22:47:25 +0000

I am actually thinking about applying for a few internships to help make that amount back. I do have a considerable amount saved up for college at the moment. I’m just a little scared about what to do. The university that I would like to transfer to offers a $6,000/yr scholarship to transfers that transfer in from a community college. To me, that’s a lot of money and could potentially mean the difference between getting my degree and having to do a fallback degree.

Well, as I’ve said before, I’m literally… done with community college. Here are the last things that I could really take:

Chemistry I & II (for solid credit) (4 hours and 4 hours)
Computer programming (Basic engineering requirement) (4 hours)
Calculus III (4 hours)

How do I make 16 hours spread out over the course of an entire year while I wait to get into this school (If I take a year off). I’m also planning on attempting to take calculus during the summer, which means I would probably only have 12 credit hours. I can’t take organic chemistry just because they don’t transfer to where I’d like to go since it’s a junior level course there, yet it’s a sophomore level course in community college.

I would pretty much have to decide right here and right now in these next few days what to do. If I bring in ANY credits at all from a university, then I lose that really nice scholarship. Just saying “forget it” and pursuing my education for mechanical engineering would bring me closer to actually getting a bachelor’s degree, but having to spend time community college for a whole year taking random credits to make full time for financial aide reasons really doesn’t help all that much.

On a more positive note… I’ve been devising a backup plan for my mechanical engineering degree. Taking calculus III in the summer would allow me to get tons of my engineering credits done and out of the way allowing me to probably graduate in just two years rather than 3 like I thought.