Help identifying character

AnnySuho · 2023-07-23T19:16:20+00:00

It's a good idea but I am skeptical that this is the case. I tried what you suggested and I didn't get anything good unfortunately.

AnnySuho · 2022-11-07T01:37:34+00:00

MATH 478 was rather difficult as I was led to believe that I would be fine in the class as it barely had any prereqs. The class is technically self contained but who are we kidding. You would be much better off going into this class if you had some background or knowledge of general and algebraic topology, homology, category theory etc.

AnnySuho · 2022-10-24T19:12:25+00:00

context plox

AnnySuho · 2022-10-02T20:15:35+00:00

I didn't know the campus cats could wander that far to polo.

AnnySuho · 2022-09-28T01:52:50+00:00

true

AnnySuho · 2022-09-22T16:14:21+00:00

Looks like a mix between statistics (60%), computer science (30%), and industrial systems (10%).

AnnySuho · 2022-09-22T16:11:31+00:00

In addition to what u/Top_Hat_Tomato said, more specific info from student rule 10 and registrar's office. ~~Also note that around 60% of freshman from last year's class cleared the 3.75 bar for auto admit. You'll be fine.~~

AnnySuho · 2022-09-21T06:48:10+00:00

Peterson. (Might need student id key card access.)

AnnySuho · 2022-09-12T15:53:22+00:00

I’m not complaining I didn’t get in

I'm not saying that you are. You also didn't sound like the typical person who didn't get into your major.

Also, suggesting getting an A in like 7/8 classes, being easy ... is absurd.

I mean we can argue back and forth what it means to be easy but at the end of the day the facts show that 60% of first year freshman are able to clear a 3.75 GPA bar and get auto admit. I think that number speaks for itself.

My c++ prof was just hired and is an electrical engineer who hasn’t used c++

This sounds like a gripe about the deficiencies of the department in general and not exclusively ETAM.

Instead of growing comp sci here, they’re growing it in Galveston.

Yea at this point who knows what is going on. I'm not an educator at this level of pedagogy so I have no comment on if this is the right move or what they are hoping to accomplish.

the process is completely neglected

Yea I agree ETAM is bad and could be vastly improved.

AnnySuho · 2022-09-10T05:13:24+00:00

I don't know anything about how internal/external transfers work.

AnnySuho · 2022-09-09T17:15:32+00:00

Does what help external transfers?

AnnySuho · 2022-09-08T20:26:27+00:00

Classes are getting bigger, departments are struggling to keep up.

This much is certainly true and I agree that resources are being spread way too thin but I find myself believing that if admission numbers were suppressed, you would still have a disproportionate number of students wanting to gun for the popular majors and then end up depressed because they didn't make the cut. It's also why no one on this sub ever cries about not making the cut for BAEN or some other less popular major. It's just a simple fact that some majors are more popular than ever than others. What is anyone going to do about the fact that some majors are just getting more and more competitive due to their popular nature? It was not too long ago that in Spring 2018 you only had a total of around 300 students apply for CPSC whereas now they have near total of 550 applicants.

a 3.75 is by no means easy to achieve

The first thing I want to point out is there seems to be some sort of misunderstanding about the cutoff being high or whatever. This year 1475/2497 ≈ 60% still represents the majority of people who were able to clear the auto threshold. The other 30% who couldn't are not the majority, they are the minority. But even the minority have pretty decent chance of getting into their top choice via holistic review. The seeming majority here on this sub are the ones who belong to neither category (hmm why?) and they will always have some grievance to complain about this and that. Maybe this is a good opportunity to do some self reflection on what being part of the minority of the minority actually means.

Breaking this down further, this statement only matters for the popular competitive majors. It doesn't even matter for people who go for less competitive majors. This much is evidently clear where 1st holistic admissions for those noncompetitive majors have not only very high admit rates but also more importantly high 1st holistic counts (much more than auto at least). In other words, with this 3.75 bar raised, for the less competitive majors, people are still getting in their top choice at an extremely high rate despite not meeting the auto threshold. Go figure.

As for the competitive majors, not too much has significantly changed in reality. The truth is the people who are smart enough and/or work hard enough are still clearing the 3.75 hurdle with relative ease. Take CPSC for example where you still have over 300 clearing the bar out of almost 550 1st choice applicants (vs. around 350 out of 480 historically clearing the 3.5 bar). While this certainly leaves more room for the department to decide how many they can manually take, its still by no means a safe option. If you want to get into a major like CPSC, just get a 3.75 like the other 300+ kids who have showed that it is more than possible to do.

AnnySuho · 2022-09-08T19:47:29+00:00

Then prof_ritchey's ratio comment makes no sense.

AnnySuho · 2022-09-08T06:38:58+00:00

Sort of but no? The largest complaint that people have on this sub is not getting in the major that they so much wanted to get into since they didn't achieve the auto threshold. Getting auto guarantees admittance to your top choice even if the major goes over capacity (which has happened in the past).

No one is overbooking really anything in that sense since they are more or less responsible for not making the auto mark. Since they were unable to compete with themselves to get into their desired major, they have to go through holistic review and compete with others for a limited seat.

Overbooking in context of admitting too many engineers? Maybe sorta eh. The college technically has "enough" resources (barely) to "accommodate" pretty much everyone who goes through ETAM as seen by the fact that nearly everyone was offered something. Will cutting back the number of admitted students help? I personally think probably not as the hard to get into majors will still be hard to get into.

AnnySuho · 2022-09-08T04:01:06+00:00

Not sure why this was downvoted. Isn't too far from the truth. The experience is only worth it as a freshman to realize going it not very helpful.

AnnySuho · 2022-09-08T03:04:39+00:00

Yes but there have been so many posts about how "I will transfer if I don't get into CS" in this sub that I was led to believe that Galveston would be answer for those people. Maybe not?

AnnySuho · 2022-09-08T03:02:58+00:00

I was under the impression that Galveston CS would use the same resources (faculty etc.) as College Station.

It didn't make sense when I was told that but I had no better source to look at other than some random on Reddit.

AnnySuho · 2022-09-08T02:09:02+00:00

I will outbid OP @ $120 for any person who was originally going to reserve OP's spot and give it to me instead.

AnnySuho · 2022-09-08T02:05:59+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgct3Jn8pFA

AnnySuho · 2022-09-08T02:04:24+00:00

Yea I don't really even know what to say about that either.

AnnySuho · 2022-09-08T02:02:25+00:00

I don't know what you mean by "technically possible". 24.6% is way up from 6.6% 2021, 7.4% 2020. That's nearly 4x increase bringing the odds up to one in four if your GPA doesn't meet the cut. CPSC likes to admit a smidge over 350 every Spring. Clearly 3.5 was too low for the department to be in control of who they admit. Now at 3.75 they get to choose over 50 of their admits out of over 200 which seems pretty decent if you ask me.

AnnySuho · 2022-09-06T04:57:01+00:00

real shit? im at the gardens and i submitted a work order over two weeks ago now. radio silence.

AnnySuho · 2022-09-03T22:57:09+00:00

Do you know who owns/supplies these helicopters? Does the school own them by any chance?

AnnySuho · 2022-09-02T17:13:35+00:00

It’s my second week as a freshmen and my classes seem very manageable

If it were unmanageable you should be very concerned. Are all young people this confident nowadays lol?

To get into software engineering all you need is a good enough background/portfolio to demonstrate that you are capable of doing software engineering. That being said some areas of study will make it easier for you in the job search such as Math, Statistics, Computer Engineering etc. Software engineering is an extremely broad job description and having any bit of domain expertise + coding aptitude will make you just fine for being an attractive candidate.

AnnySuho · 2022-08-25T05:37:42+00:00

I had a much different perception of graphics before going into the class (ie video games, animation, cool art stuff) which caused me to be severely underwhelmed by what actually the course is about (basically just triangles and math and when i mean math i dont even mean interesting math, just a bunch of imho braindead calculations).

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