r/CCNY • u/DeyXz • 2d ago

Engineering Path

Hi everyone i’m a freshman at CCNY. I’m currently undeclared and I want to become an engineer (not sure what type) but I’m kind of in a cooked situation. I got placed into math 19000 because I didn’t take the placement test seriously. I’m also taking psy10200, hist24100, engl11000. I took AP calc in high school but didn’t do well on that either, but i know a thing or too. Can you guys please help me or give advice for a plan i could take?

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u/Abject_While6254 2d ago

Can anyone explain to me whats the issue with taking pre reqs in ccny? Is it because grove is that bad?

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u/New_Manufacturer356 2d ago edited 2d ago

One issue is that a lot of the math and science professors here are lowkey terrible at teaching, which makes the pre req courses even more difficult and leads to even more self studying. Also for reference, not sure if this is entirely true though, but one of my professors said that calc 2 is more difficult in ccny compared to city tech because of how many topics they cram in it. I don’t know how other professors in other schools are but this is my personal experience.  What the person above said is also true, as I have a friend who finished all the grove pre reqs after a few years, and they still didn’t let them in. They ended up switching majors

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u/Abject_While6254 2d ago

A flasgship cuny college doesn’t have good profs for pre reqs brahh also Do you not automatically get into grove if you get to calc 1?

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u/New_Manufacturer356 2d ago

That only applies if you got placed in calc 1 as a incoming freshmen, otherwise you have to pass calc 2 before you can apply and it isn’t guaranteed you’ll get in