CP SLO vs UCLA DECISION!!

ucbalumnus
Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:57:54 +0000

Mallen640:

One thing however that was said to me was that they have to do a senior year project where the “class” to do this is only offered in the fall quarter, if I remember correctly, and spans the whole year. This was pointed out as a big inhibitor of the 4 year graduation rate by one of the students I spoke with.



That means that you want to plan your course schedule carefully so that you have fulfilled the course’s prerequisites by fall senior year. Same for any other required or highly desirable course for your major that is only offered once per year.

Here is a [suggested schedule plan for Cal Poly mechanical engineering](http://me.calpoly.edu/media/uploads/resources/ME_2009-2011_Flow_Chart.pdf). And similar for [UCLA mechanical engineering](http://www.seasoasa.ucla.edu/curric-10-11/33curmech10.html#125249320_pgfId-1000319), but note changes in [this FAQ](http://www.seasoasa.ucla.edu/undergraduates/mae-department-curricular-reqs/mae-faq). At both schools, these indicate an average of slightly more than 15 credit hour units per term. (However, if you figure out which courses are more or less work than their credit units indicate, you can try to load up on the less work per credit unit courses in the overload terms, and take the more work per credit unit courses in the non-overload terms.)

You can find various stats about the school from the common data sets (go to the school web site and put “common data set” in the search box).