It isn’t that the material you cover is ultimately easier at a school like CCSU. It’s that the ramp-up to that level of difficulty isn’t presuming that everybody is ready to hit the ground running, especially in higher math. AND they also have an engineering tech major, which Rutgers does not. So there’s an off-ramp that doesn’t mean giving on engineering altogether. The likelihood of needing that off-ramp is lower, in a more supportive program, but it’s still good that it’s there.
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I didn’t say it was = they were branched at Stamford.
CCSU is a traditional school I know. In fact, one of the girls my daughter used to play volleyball with is on the team there.
These are the four branch campuses for UConn. Many students in this state start at one of these branch campuses and finish at Storrs.
Avery Point, Hartford, Stamford, and Waterbury
CCSU has a good engineering technology program as well as engineering, and students from these programs get jobs locally all the time.
Both would be good choices for this student…and really the branch acceptance to UConn is nothing to be ashamed of!
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I have a tutor and trying my best to pull my yearly grade to at least a C (because it’s a D right now) but that would require to get me an A 4th quarter which I don’t think is possible (maybe a B is possible)
I got into beaver campus
Plz apply to ccsu. You are gonna need to retake calc, and youre gonna need support. Youll find it at central.
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Less of the concern is the grade and more is the mastery of the subject - because in engineering, your math level is going to go much higher. Of course, you need a grade to not be rescinded.
I agree with @parentologist - find a school where you can get support (daily support) - and you may need tutoring beyond what a school can offer you for free - and that will be budget eating as well.
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If you would consider Psu rather than UConn (* ) email Psu admissions and ask to be reconsidered for Behrend or Harrisburg. Use these exact terms. It may be too late but these are real 4 year colleges with solid Engineering and you’d just move to University Park with your cohort after 2 years.
(* UConn Stamford->Storrs would certainly be cheaper and make more sense. But providing info just in case for some reason you don’t want that option nor CCSU and would rather go OOS.)
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The UConn branch campuses are not good options for OP because none of them offer engineering or engineering technology. (Neither does the Penn state branch to which they were admitted). I think starting in non-engineering and transferring sounds like a huge headache.
CCSU offers enough different programs that OP could find the right fit without having to transfer. CCSU is also close enough to OP that they could live at home and commute if they want to. Which means it’s also the cheapest of options.
The option to live at home would also free OP up to take courses at their own pace. Heck, the money saved could be spent on intensive tutoring throughout.
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From the UConn website.
https://undergrad.engr.uconn.edu/majors-minors-2/our-majors/
But what would they study at the branch campus? I’m confused. I guess you could fill up a year or two with ancillary sciences and gen eds, but engineering classes at UConn start in the first semester.
My husband is a career engineer in CT. He has hired UConn grads who started at branch campuses. The key is to take the required sciences and math courses that first year engineers are also taking. And I think that is possible at at least some of the branches.
I do agree that CCSU offers more and perhaps even better options for this applicant. And my husband also hired CCSU engineering grads.
He was looking for engineers who were willing learners as so much of any engineering job is knowing the company culture and procedures, in addition to having the required engineering knowledge.
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Regarding CCSU or other schools, would getting a grade lower than C in an in-progress course risk rescission there as well?
What if I do gap year and retake Calc? also yeah if CCSU rescinds people for grades lower than C then I have no other options
I don’t know if you’d be rescinded - you’d have to ask.
But you’d certainly have to retake - and many kids start college in either a remedial class or Calc 1.
You have to look at the big picture - at least looking on paper here (sorry to be honest), you’re unlikely to get a degree in engineering - from anywhere. I hope I’m wrong. I hope you can work at it or are able to get there.
Others have listed adjacent degrees - perhaps an engineering technology.
It’s not a question of gap year or no gap year. If you want to be in school next year, you should be in school.
But if you truly want to be an engineer, you’re going to have to figure out how to master calc and what comes afterward.
Maybe you need to repeat it. Maybe you need to go back to pre - calc.
I don’t know the answer - but at least on paper, it seems like math is not something you’re capturing.
btw - lives are long - and you’ll be amazed at what you can do, whether you’re an engineer or something else.
But you didn’t apply to CCSU did you? So that might be step one to have it as an option.
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A gap year normally means no college after high school graduation, so you may lose eligibility to apply as frosh to some colleges (but this varies by college). If you would lose eligibility to apply as frosh to UConn, CCSU, etc., then you may as well fully commit to the transfer pathway and take other courses to prepare for transfer.
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You can’t retake calc via your high school, because you’re graduating with or without a passing calc grade since it’s not required for graduation. If you retake calc at a college, you’d be considered a college student and any future application you do would be as a transfer student.
I really do think CCSU is your best bet. You need to apply there! You can take classes at your pace and there will be no need to transfer to get your engineering or engineering technology degree. If you enroll for fall there, you might even be able to “early start” by taking calculus there over the summer so you can just focus on really nailing it down.
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At many places this is true…but at some places you can take one course and not be considered a transfer student. BUT you need to check each college of interest to find out their policies.
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Agreed.
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Are you in Calc AB or BC? I thought I read BC but now I’m thinking that I might have just assumed.
If it is BC, is there any chance of dropping BC and switching into AB?
If it is AB, keep in mind that college calculus will move twice as fast, covering the content of AB in one semester.