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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To Rochester parents - are intro engineering classes weed out? Collaborative? What my DS loved most at visit to Pitt was the obvious spirit of collaboration. 
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My kid took AP credit for Calc 1&2---but told me those are fairly easy, especially if you retook with AP credit (my kid wishes they had taken the easy A's...but is happy they can now add a CS minor and graduate in 4 years simply because they took the AP credits).  
Kid also says Chem 101/102 are fairly easy, especially if you had AP chem in HS.  Lots of EC offered to help kids do well.  Once again, my kid took AP credit and took "freshman Orgo only for freshman with AP/IB credit." that course was hard---made even harder because many in course also had Orgo in HS but needed to get credit for it.  Avg on first midterm was 86% (avg on the regular Orgo (sophomore class) first MT was 54% and curved accordingly).

My kid finds it collaborative and the classes are not really "weed out" like at many universities.  After 3 semesters (and my kid basically started as a sophomore their freshman year) my kid has a 3.5+ and it will only go up as the "bad grades" were Calc 4 (linear algebra/diff eq) and Orgo1&2.   The open core curriculum is a huge plus for my kid.  Let's them take what they love to study and if they wanted they could have a 2nd minor with only a bit more work (in the arts, so not really beneficial and my kid is too busy to put in the extra hours to do the minor that would be worthless to them---they'd rather focus on the STEM courses).

basically, my kid loves UR and is thriving.  The professors are great, and very involved with helping students.  My kid will be starting research in their major spring of sophomore year.

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