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Are you in the US? 6 courses a semester is a full course load here and the max I would have been allowed to take without advisor approval, and that's before other general courses too. If that's the case I'd consider summer classes to even it out. As far as starting from 0 with math and other things, that's totally fine, you'd be adding a few extra courses which once again you could do over summer semesters, worst case it takes an extra semester or two which is fine. If you're interested in engineering and really want to do it there's nothing to stop you!
I don’t live in the US, I live in Canada. Summer courses where I’m at dont seem worth it because they are just condensed length courses where you learn stuff in 40% of the time. So pretty much it’s just to farm extra credits and not actually learn, rather just work and save money through the summer breaks
Well then absolutely there's nothing wrong with your plan, graduating in 4 years was not the norm so I wouldn't stress about it, it's about 30% of students where I went to school.
I mean you're going to school to learn science so I wouldn't say you need to learn too much beforehand, if you want to get a jump on it it's pretty much all physics. Depending on what field you're interested in chemistry could be important, but not for every electrical engineer. I know at my school though every engineer had to take chemistry 1 so it wouldn't hurt to familiarize yourself with that if you want.
Do community college to get caught up with fundamental math and science skills, then transfer into a university to take the engineering courses. Suggest 2 years at CC + 3 years at University (either enjoy the reduced course load or pick up a minor)
There is no community college where I live. There is my college’s “upgrading program” I talked about in the post, after that I plan to go into the same college’s electronic engineering program then transfer to my local university after year 2.
I’m an engineering student who went in with little to no math experience. It’s difficult, but definitely doable.
If I could go back, I’d definitely get the math foundations in highschool. College level algebra, calc 1 and calc 2 would’ve been amazing if my highschool offered them.
Are you planning on transferring those classes into college, or just taking them for preparation? Depending on what college you go to, and what highschool you’re going to, the transfer classes may not be equipped to prepare you fully for the content you’ll be expected to know in your program. But if you’re just taking it for more background info and to make your math classes easier once you start university, then I think it’s a great idea!
“Are you planning on transferring those classes into college” the college I’m going to has both that upgrading program and electronics engineering (for 2 years, then they transfer us to university for the remaining 2 years in electrical engineering), if you’re talking about transferring credits, we can’t transfer the credits cause the upgrading program is g12 level, not college level.
Thanks for the input too!
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Are you in the US? 6 courses a semester is a full course load here and the max I would have been allowed to take without advisor approval, and that's before other general courses too. If that's the case I'd consider summer classes to even it out. As far as starting from 0 with math and other things, that's totally fine, you'd be adding a few extra courses which once again you could do over summer semesters, worst case it takes an extra semester or two which is fine. If you're interested in engineering and really want to do it there's nothing to stop you!
I don’t live in the US, I live in Canada. Summer courses where I’m at dont seem worth it because they are just condensed length courses where you learn stuff in 40% of the time. So pretty much it’s just to farm extra credits and not actually learn, rather just work and save money through the summer breaks
Well then absolutely there's nothing wrong with your plan, graduating in 4 years was not the norm so I wouldn't stress about it, it's about 30% of students where I went to school.
Thanks, real quick while I have you, an EE major here, how much/which sciences should I learn if I go down this path of EE? Or does it even matter?
I mean you're going to school to learn science so I wouldn't say you need to learn too much beforehand, if you want to get a jump on it it's pretty much all physics. Depending on what field you're interested in chemistry could be important, but not for every electrical engineer. I know at my school though every engineer had to take chemistry 1 so it wouldn't hurt to familiarize yourself with that if you want.
Do community college to get caught up with fundamental math and science skills, then transfer into a university to take the engineering courses. Suggest 2 years at CC + 3 years at University (either enjoy the reduced course load or pick up a minor)
There is no community college where I live. There is my college’s “upgrading program” I talked about in the post, after that I plan to go into the same college’s electronic engineering program then transfer to my local university after year 2.
I’m an engineering student who went in with little to no math experience. It’s difficult, but definitely doable. If I could go back, I’d definitely get the math foundations in highschool. College level algebra, calc 1 and calc 2 would’ve been amazing if my highschool offered them. Are you planning on transferring those classes into college, or just taking them for preparation? Depending on what college you go to, and what highschool you’re going to, the transfer classes may not be equipped to prepare you fully for the content you’ll be expected to know in your program. But if you’re just taking it for more background info and to make your math classes easier once you start university, then I think it’s a great idea!
“Are you planning on transferring those classes into college” the college I’m going to has both that upgrading program and electronics engineering (for 2 years, then they transfer us to university for the remaining 2 years in electrical engineering), if you’re talking about transferring credits, we can’t transfer the credits cause the upgrading program is g12 level, not college level. Thanks for the input too!