engineering degree high school requirements

ucbalumnus
Sun, 12 Apr 2015 14:41:03 +0000

General college prep curriculum, including rigorous choices (honors, AP, IB HL) as available and appropriate.

The only things specific to preparing to major in engineering would be to get strong math and science. For math, precalculus/trigonometry at the minimum, with calculus or higher being desirable (which he should be able to do if he is taking geometry in 8th grade). For science, physics is typically the most important, then chemistry, so choosing the most rigorous options in those subjects is advisable.

If he is considering an IB program, he may want to consider (a) how being two grade levels ahead in math would affect his progression through the IB math courses (in some cases, the rigid scheduling of IB course work may force him to slow down or skip a year of math), and (b) whether HL (as opposed to SL) is available in math and all of the sciences in the IB program.