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Originally Posted by creeper
My adviser kind of screwed me over in just that way. I was loosely considering engineering, but this school only offers a pre-engineering program and then you transfer to NJIT. Classes are assigned the first semester of Freshman year, so I had no choices in that. My adviser told me not to take any science/math classes until sophomore year, so I signed up for all the gen eds she recommended. Then sophomore year when I went to meet with her to get my pin to register for classes I found out that she had quit, but I had never been assigned a new adviser. I had to go from office to office and it ended up taking me weeks to get the pin to sign up for classes, so all the engineering related prerequisites were full. Now this semester I went to look into what I needed to take to continue on that path, and barely any of my classes would have counted. It would end up taking me another 5 years to finish. I figure since I'm in 2 years already, I can finish a degree in 2. and then if I realize engineering is what I really want to do I can go for that, but since I'm half done already I'd rather not scrap all of these classes.
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Originally Posted by WildBillyT
If you are good at math go for engineering or one of the sciences. From what I remember, the early (fresh/soph) year had easier math, but junior and senior year were much harder.
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Yea, I had a rough start into college as well, two transfers, and 5 years later, I am gonna get a MechE degree. I would def get a new person to talk to, and if your serious about doing a science type degree, ditch the genEd stuff ASAP.
NJIT is fairly ok for transferring into, but you will need to fight for every credit you earned in community college. The math stuff will def transfer, but you need to talk to NJIT or wherever and find out exactly what they will transfer in.
I believe both NJIT and RU have a program with local community colleges that they are "required" to accept you as a JR if you do the two years before hand.