How long does it take to graduate as an engineer?

norris212
Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:30:03 +0000

No problem I’m glad I can help. I found my igetc sheet and here’s what you need: Two english classes, one math (which you’ll already have), 4 courses total from areas 3,4, and 5 (you should have three courses already just from physics). So you’ll probably only need to take the 2 writing courses and 1 more GE class.

I had way more units than were needed; I had some bad counseling advise haha and wasted a little bit of time on GE courses I didn’t need. But you need at least 60 units to transfer and I don’t think they accept more than 70, but don’t worry if you have more, it’s not like they’ll deny you. Just try not to get too much more than 70 or you’ll be wasting time.

For my major courses I took 3 calc classes, linear algebra, differential equations, 3 classes in physics, chemistry, statics, materials, a few programming classes (only needed 1), and circuits. I think that was all.

For my GE classes, which I had too many of, I had Spanish, 2 english classes, statistics, political science, psychology, film studies, and speech. By the way I think you need a speech class for cal poly so add that to your GE list.

When I applied to schools I had a transferable GPA of 3.45, which is decent. I got into UCSB ME, UC Davis AE, and UCSD AE. I got waitlisted for Cal Poly AE (still waiting), and denied from UCLA AE. I would say for the schools you mentioned try and get a 3.5+. Usually a 3.4 or 3.5 would get you into all of those except maybe LA, but the standards rose this year because of the economy.

Feel free to keep asking questions I’m glad I could help!