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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]6% of bachelor's degrees are engineering and 3% are computer science. Yet by reading DCUM, you'd think that most students go to school for those two degrees.[/quote]

That’s because a TON of them wash out and never make it past their Organic Chem class. [/quote]

What a weird comment. [/quote]

my neighbor is a first year at Purdue Engineering, taking calc and chem and whatever else they require, living in the engineering dorm, and knows quite a few women who have already changed majors out of engineering. HS was easy for her but she is getting her butt kicked with first year classes.[/quote]

Cool, but the comment was about organic chemistry. Engineering students don’t have to take that. [/quote]

I have a a freshman mechanical engineering major. They definitely have to take chemistry - and it's a weed out class too. Engineering and pre-med. For many of these freshman, it's the first time they encounter a grade besides A. There's also multivariable calculus. Another weed out.

Freshman year is hard for engineering majors. DC is rolling with it. But it's tough in a way that the social science and humanities majors will never understand. Engineering is full on right from the beginning. I think it gets easier when the prereqs are done with and they can focus on the engineering courses.

Engineering is a hard degree. And chem and math are part of it.

This is at a top 20 school. [/quote]

Not talking about gen chem, pp was talking about orgo [/quote]

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