MACAQUEDo/did any of you guys go to schools where you had to compete to get into your engineering major? I go to the University of Washington and getting into the school of engineering is pretty tough. For most disciplines the average admitted GPA is around 3.5 for all pre-req classes. To get a 3.5 in a lot of the classes you have to get upwards of 92% of all possible points. It takes quite a bit of work.
nah... personally i think it really depends on what you are wanting to do after school for a career and the type of grades you get or schools you are in. in most industries it seems like employers don't really care as much about the grades as they do about 1) whether or not they can stand the person and could even work with them and 2) their experience and basic problem solving skills.
literally any one of us in here could all do the same problems out of books and shit and get relatively the same answers and blah blah but some of us might use different ways to get there or understand it quicker than someone else. if someone were to ask us to design something where its not about a right answer, but the most efficient method and sometimes its explaining your thought process or why you went with the way you did to get there.
a gpa is a good starting point to get your foot in the door for an interview, but grades dont get you the job. you have to have people skills, common sense and problem solving skills. anyone in engineering can be a pencil pusher but those aren't the people who get the good jobs or move up in the world and run shit. obviously you need solid technical skills for a solid foundation, but they are just building blocks for what you learn in the real world. thats why you don't become a PE until after 4 years of experience under other PEs. but you can't just sit in your room crunching numbers and never see the light of day and hope because you have straight A's you will be working somewhere cool and making bank. not the case these days.
thats my opinion on the whole matter anyway.
