<p>I’m interested in these formulas that are supposed to predict a freshman’s GPA based on their high school class rank and SAT scores. I plan on doing Chemical Engineering at UT Austin.</p>
<p>By the way, can we list something as both our 1st and 2nd choice major? I’m pretty dead-set on UT Austin ChemE</p>
<p>You should list some random major in a different college for your second major. For example, I applied for the McCombs school of business as my first choice, but I put economics in the college of liberal arts as my second major. This way, if I didn’t get int o McCombs, I would still get into the school (top 10%, have to accept me to COLA, etc).</p>
<p>As far as GPA, that would be a random guess. I graduated top 1% at Plano Sr with a 4.35 GPA and I have a 3.9 now in McCombs. I have another friend who graduated above me, is in Engineering, and has like a 3.2, so any guess would be random at best.</p>
<p>I’m a ChemE and the average GPA for ChemE’s are around 3.2 after the first year but it gets harder after that trust me.</p>
<p>What are ChemE students typically like in terms of academics? How much do you study per day?</p>
<p>Most ChemE’s are academically focused. I don’t what you mean “in terms of academics”, but our courseload is rigorous. I study, on average, from around 4 p.m. to midnight or 1 a.m. depending on the class/number of credit hours</p>
<p>^ Wow, that’s a LOT of studying. That must really kill your college experience.</p>
<p>@iambored</p>
<p>Is that EVERY day? If so, holy ****.</p>
<p>Well it sort of does but I usually work out sometimes in between and eat dinner at JCL/J2. The weekends and friday are always their for fun :). It’s not everday LOL. This is usually if I have a lab due for OChem or CH 204 (which are b**** lab reports…)</p>
<p>Actually I don’t agree with y2k you should put both your first and second choice major as engineering for example chemical and mechanical. I am almost positive that the cockrell school is the one one who will consider a canidate twice. Besides switching from say your second choice civil engineering into yourtop choice chemical will be much easier than trying to transfer from a liberal arts major. It is pointless to go to a college for a major your not interested in.</p>
<p>Well I’m not really familiar with how Engineering works. For McCombs we had to apply just to the school without a specific major, so it’s not like I could select “Finance” 1st choice and then “Accounting” 2nd choice, or something like that. I was unaware that engineering was different.</p>
<p>It’s also true that internal transfer (COLA to Engineering or Business) is way better than getting rejected outright if you didn’t qualify for either Engineering major (but would have totally gotten in to a COLA major) and then having to go to CC for a year or UTSA or something like that. I know that a lot of people do Econ as a 2nd choice for McCombs since then they can easily take the required courses their Freshman year to transfer to McCombs their sophomore year.</p>
<p>Ok so did a little research. Here’s a link about internal transfers [Internal</a> Transfer Historical Summary](<a href=“Undergraduate Education”>Undergraduate Education) you can see that some years they let a lot of people transfer but more recently it’s become harder. It’s really your decision, I think a big part of this rides on if you have automatic admission. I will tell you that when I applied the woman I spoke with urged me to pick engineering as my first and second major. With that being said they also told me that the engineering school wants to becomesmaller and more selective and tool about 20 percent less this year for admission than usuall yikes! It would also explain some of the frightening internal transfer statistics. If your really concerned about going to UT I would say play it safe. but if your more concerned about getting a degree in chemE I would consider the more risky move. Either way I hope you get in next year. Good luck</p>
<p>//<a href=“http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/udean/admissions/internal.asp”>www.mccombs.utexas.edu/udean/admissions/internal.asp</a> oh and this is for anyone who was reading this post and was interested in the mccombs school tranfers.</p>
<p>I don’t think high school rank is at all indicative of how you will perform in college. While it might mean you probably flunk out if you had a high high school rank, a low high school rank doesn’t automatically mean you will suck in college. I was ranked somewhere in the top 30% and my college GPA every semester has beaten several top 10%ers from my competitive high school, especially my freshman year which was my best year academically because I nearly had a 4.0. So don’t let a high rank fool you into thinking you will absolutely be coming out with 4.0s every semester, and don’t let a “low” rank also dupe you into thinking you are going to fail in life. It’s all about how you do in college. Forget high school now that you have been admitted in college. Your high school days are behind you.</p>
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<p>No offense, but if you were an engineering major, your GPA would be lower, also.</p>
<p>^ Agreed. ^</p>
<p>A 3.2 isn’t too shabby for a chem e major. The grade inflation at McCombs is rediculous. My friend got a 72 in a class and was curved to a B+ eventhough the majority of the class had averages around 81. In engineering, if you are below the class average you get a C/C+ or a B-.</p>
<p>Also, I believe that economics is the only major in COLA that doesn’t allow you to choose it as a second choice.</p>
<p>Sorry in my post I meant to type *probably won’t flunk</p>
<p>“No offense, but if you were an engineering major, your GPA would be lower, also.”</p>
<p>That was really the point of my post, different majors have different grade distributions. I wouldn’t call what McCombs does “inflating” since we’re all competing among each other still for the same jobs upon graduation.</p>
<p>@Why Two Kay, ah yes mccombs gpa inflation. Isn’t that so you’ll look good to all the future applicants? Not that it really matters to anyone outside of the business world.</p>
<p>Allowing business majors to qualify for university honors with their inflated GPA’s is pretty ridiculous. Any way you look at it, the business GPA is “inflated”. However, I agree that you all are competing for the same jobs and that it all works out in the end. I guess they want you to have enough self-esteem when you graduate with your 3.8/3.9 GPA in order to combat the demoralizing corporate grind.</p>
<p>^ Most McCombs graduates don’t end up in a “demoralizing corporate grind”. We’re not graduating with an accounting degree from a community college, we have a better education than that and the jobs reflect it.</p>
<p>Although I will say, the only two non A’s I’ve gotten were in non-McCombs classes (government 312L and CC 308d, my fine art).</p>
<p>And this doesn’t help my argument either… [Average</a> GPA of B.B.A. Graduation Class by Semester](<a href=“http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/udean/resources/stats/stats/statsAvgGpaSem.asp]Average”>http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/udean/resources/stats/stats/statsAvgGpaSem.asp)</p>
<p>Oh well it was really hard to get into McCombs for most people, they might as well make it easy once you get in. And the job offers we get prove we really do actually learn the material and not just get curved.</p>