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Which Cal States do you think would accept me? From my research, seems like most won't even accept a student with my grades. I just have a lot of other things such as work that takes up my time because I have to support myself. I'm 100% independent living in Orange County where it is really expensive.
Yeah, I've struggled in math. Those are the classes I've failed or barely passed.
I'm passing all my other classes, but I've always had a passion for building and engineering. Would architecture be an easier outlet for me?
Have you passed any level of Calculus?
Engineering programs will look at your math & science heavily. Many engineering programs hit students pretty hard in those classes early ..... one of my buddies from my freshman year was in our engineering program and worked really hard at it, but just couldn't do the math so he dropped to go to a different school for something else
On the other side of the map would be taking a program for inspection/code compliance
Construction Management is a good field and some offer 2 year programs for this - it's a ton of work though on the employment end and can involve pretty much all hours
Frankly with that low of a GPA at a community college, any 4 year school would be downright foolish to accept you, especially into an engineering degree. Of you are not downright strong at math, you need to change your degree goals to be realistic.
I have to agree with the other posters. If you can't do community college math you're going to have a very hard time as an engineering major. Maybe there are all kinds of factors that are negatively affecting your performance, but many community college students work full time and earn better grades.
Do you have an academic advisor you could talk to about your career goals?
Academic advisers in our schools suck, I literally have to look for resources online to get help. Do you guys have any suggestions?
The only thing I've seen is StatFuse.com, but that is for college chances. Any resources I can read or blogs I can read for college transferring information?
Don't go to an academic advisor if you are seeking information about careers, go to the instructors that work in those fields, they will give you a better idea of the career path that you can take to get where you want or go to the career services office for help. Academic advisors are tasked with advising on academics, not careers.
If you are struggling with math then I wouldn't even attempt to get a degree in engineering. I was at a four-year school and my roommate was an engineer and it would literally take him 5-8 hours to do three engineer problems that were all math based and if you messed up one step the entire problem is wrong.
Pick a number of schools that you want to transfer to, make copies of your transcripts and talk to their transfer advisors the people at the schools that you are interested in transferring to are the best ones to go to because they are the ones that make the decisions about admitting transfer students. Don't try to find out what your chances are through resources, find out by going to the people that are directly connected to the process.
I'm trying to figure out what my options are at Universities because that's my priority. If all of those are wiped out, then I would like more resources to figure out other options I have such as pursuing a degree at a for-profit or a trade school.
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