I want mechatronics! I have check on a few colleges and only Nilai college have mechatronics listed in their majors. And Inti only have 5/6 major courses.

P.s. what do you mean by credit transfer?

You shouldn't worry too much about your major in your first year. You won't be learning anything that has to do with mechatronics, you'll probably be taking calculus, physics and all, but not mechatronics or some advance courses.

You can't transfer to a university if you do not have anything to transfer. Understand?

the courses that you take in msia will be transfered to the uni which you apply and admitted for undergrad. so depending on the uni, not all credits will be transfered.

most uni, you need about 128 credit hours or more, i have no idea. but for my major it's 128 credit hours to graduate. so if you take some credit hours in msia, it would be transfered, meaning, you would have less credit hours to take in US.

another thing to consider, you can always take courses at community college here in the US, which is much cheaper and will definitely transfer, but always check with the uni if it does transfer or not.

And so what if your credit can't be transfer/only transfer abit to US?( I mean what problem will we face?)

pay more? study more?

This post has been edited by ~PussyDevil~: Nov 16 2006, 12:41 PM

it will most probably be an elective or disregarded. you will have to take whatever courses you're lacking in US, pay more dollars!

whats financial engineering?

How is it studying in US compare to anywhere?(education system and stuff)
fun?

well, i like it. it's less stressful compared to like taking SPM (only one exam determine whether you pass/fail), it requires that you study continuously, because of the quizzes, exams, assignments, presentations. so you will not fail miserably if you do well in some, if you do well in all, you should be getting As. i really dont know about other education system. but if you like ADP, you should like studying in US more...i find it easier compared to ADP.

another thing, there's always scholarships for undergrad available, competitve but possible. if you have really good results from SPM and from ADP, you can get scholarships and those can cover quite a lot of the tuition. i have friends here who get about $5000/year. it's quite a lot.

and if you plan to do your masters, you will get assistantship: for my uni, you wont need to pay tuition, and you only need to pay for your fees (intl student fee, health insurance, computer lab, library. etc.) in addition, you will get a stipend every month, that would be your "pay". this should be enough for your monthly expenses.

when you're getting close to finishing ADP, get in touch with seniors in the uni you want to go, they should be able to help you or give you more info.

Which uni are you in? and what course you studying now?

UNL, just google it. BS dietetics, continuing MS nutrition.

Thank you so much.
You help alot.

you're welcome. good luck!

american syllabus is very different from malaysia's syllabus(britsh) IIRC.

i mean the courses provided. malaysia(all the british commonwealth) focuz on finally exam, and only the final exam counts. for american its every semester counts. its very proggresive. but what u sit for in the 1st semester wont come out in the second semester and so on.

correct me if i'm wrong.

whatever you took in the previous semester will accumulate. the cumulative graduate point average (CGPA). so if you did very badly for one subject, like C or D, it will show your in CGPA. unless you retake (remember, it's not resit an exam) that class and score a better grade it will be hard to bring your CGPA up.

are you studying there? you seem to know alot.

exactly i missed out that part.. haha

nope. i have knowledge about it only lol

well, you are wrong.

it is obvious that the studying and exam methods are different, but it still requires memorization. although grades are calculated comprehensively, from the start of the sem/quarter to the end of it, the final exam still carry a lot of weight.

and whatever you learn in organic chem I will be needed in organic chem II, III so on and so forth too. there's no such thing as learn and forget.

if that is not the most obvious statement, I dont know what it is.

it is called Cumulative GPA for a reason. it is applied in UK and yourhomeland too.. so what gives?

i never said anything about forget. i said the chapters that are included in the 1st sem exam will be excluded in the 2nd sem. even tho every sem's chapter is related to each other but the scheme is totally different la.

I'm sorry for hijacking this thread but could someone recommend a good college for ADP-Computer Science. Thanks in advance!

I thought that those Americans don't know what CGPA is. They call it just GPA.

CGPA, probably, is used in Malaysia, correct me if I'm wrong.