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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was studying CS at UVA I thought the program was unnecessarily hard. The 30 hours in CS was fine. Back then I also had to take another 30 hours in Applied Math. That was also fine. The thing that got me was the 60 hours in general engineering like Thermo and circuits that I didn't care about. I think there were 12 hours of electives on top of this. Most semesters were around 18 hours. This was a long time ago and I hope it isn't like this today. However, I would probably avoid any CS program that requires 60+ hours of engineering for the sake of engineering.[/quote]I am sorry you had this experience.  I too went UVA CS back in the day and while Thermo and Circuits weren't "hard" for me in the sense of intellectual stimulation and challenge, the grading was not objective.  Yes the curve was at a C, even if the mean was 94% or 96%.  It was "hard" in terms of the vicious sabotage from competing classmates and demoralizing staff.  I do use circuits for IOT and DSP, and Thermo (not UVa's class) knowledge helps me with troubleshooting and tutoring my cousins ;) in physics.  I completely agree with this poster to avoid UVA Eng and just do MIT's OCW courseware/youtube/skillsoft/etc and grade yourself.[/quote]

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