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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi Penn Alumni,
Is it difficult to obtain a degree from the engineering division? How many hours do you have to study each day to get B or higher on the core courses? Are most female students doing fine there?
I have a solid foundation for math but worry about physics...[/quote]

Engineering at any public flagship is tough because you have a lot of students and the programs definitely want to weed out students. I can't speak to hours of study because everyone learns and studies at wildly different rates.

I was not happy with the math department at PSU (we actually had ABET people come in to survey students regarding the math department because there were a few complaints about it) but if have a good foundation in mathematics and put in the work you will be successful.

If you are strong in your mathematics I would be very confident that you will be ok in the core physics mechanics and e/m courses.

I found many of the female students did well as it was a big enough school where you had a decent amount of female students (numbers wise, not ratio wise) as well as orgs like SWE. [/quote]

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