UMN vs UW Madison for ChemE

jheidenreich
Thu, 27 Dec 2018 19:18:53 +0000

If it helps at all I’m a freshman engineer at Madison right now. I took some of the typical “weed out” classes; chem 103, comp sci 200, calc 3 with Sean paul (I luckily didn’t have to take calc 2 which is notoriously difficult). They were all hard in their own way, but it wasn’t bad if you did all the work and studied a little bit. Even though I was pledging a fraternity all semester so my academics weren’t necessarily my priority, I still ended up with a 4.0 (I was right on the edge for a lot of classes so I got kinda lucky). If you do all the work and go to office hours you should be fine.
Also, the gpa requirement is only for automatic progression in the major; you can still make it into the major if you don’t meet the cutoff, it’ll just depend on how many spots they have.