Did I just get accepted to UWM? [Update: Graduating with class of 2013!]

[adamb100]

If any of you are familar with UWM and admissions, they have the PAWS system which allows you to check your admissions status. Well after weeks of nothing it finally got updated:

 

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[iluvlamp]

Yes, you are an undergraduate. Congrats.

[Brian the Automator]

Congrats!!

[adamb100]

*still waits for acceptance letter in mail*

[thablingster]

Congrats! http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

[brewerjamie15]

Good job and good luck!

[gypcasino]

Nice job.

Oh, if I could do it all over again...

[sbrylski]

I nearly went to UWM for the proximity to the Brewers alone, but decided most of the season is in the summer anyway. I ruled out Minnesota because of the Vikings.

[BraunsBoyfriend]

Ahhhh, UWM: Where the student body can't figure out if they're accepted or not. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

 

I'm just kidding. I got a Bachelor of Science from that very fine university. But it was just too easy to lay off here.

[edod]

Congrats, I'm sure I'll see you around. Without knowing it of course.

[BuckyTuba]

congratulations adam, very good school in a very good city.

[unsanitary999]

I ruled out Minnesota because of the Vikings.

 

Actually, Minnesota has a nice Packers bar in Uptown that I normally go to when the games aren't televised...

 

And MLB.TV does the trick the two months of the year that school is in session over there.

[funkx0r]

Some bastard stole my moped out of my garage on Downer Ave.....the school is great though. Nice job.

[adamb100]

I dont think UWM is gonna like me getting a D in geometry for the semester. According to my grade, I failed 2nd quarter. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[thablingster]

LOL, they probably don't care as long as you graduated.

 

You'll have to take placement exams anyway, so that is what they care about.

[Houlie24x]

funkx0r I knew someone that had a moped stolen on Downer as well.

[AZBrewCrew]

Im not seeing where you were admitted. It says in big bold black letters "this application is incomplete" then it lists things that are missing, transcript,fee and placement tests. I just had the same thing happen with me at ASU, now it just says "application complete" but it doesnt say I'm admitted yet. Perhaps I'm wrong, maybe its the booze, but thats how I interpreted it.

[Jimbo]

Don't these places mail out acceptance letters anymore?

[funkx0r]

Houlie42x, maybe we know each other?

[Brian the Automator]

I stole someone's moped on Downer once. Maybe we ALL know each other.

 

http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

[adamb100]

I think I was accepted because when I submitted my application online the PAWS thing said it also wanted my transcript. After being sent out the thing said the application was complete.

[adamb100]

Well I got my UWM acceptance letter:

 

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Unfortunately some else came with it. While I got accepted I applied to the College OF Engineering and Applied Science to major in Compute Science. The other letter states I dont meet the specific standards so I cant go there for the fall 07 term however I can goto the college of Letters and Science. Then if remain interested in CEAS I can do a internal transfer to it.

[BraunsBoyfriend]

adam, I went to the school of Engineering there for computer science.

 

It's a good, rigid and difficult program.

 

Don't worry about not being accepted into it right away. Take all your required nonrelated courses and such. But also take the math you need right away!

 

CS is basically a math degree. Be good at math and ready to do a lot of it. You need to do Calc 230,231 and 232 I believe. there is another sequence with 4 calc courses also. You also have to do a physics course. when I was there you had to do 2 calculus physics courses, mechanics and Maxwell's equations. You also have to do a couple elective math courses.

 

All the calc and physics are 4 credits each and 6 credits of math elective (9 when I went). That's A LOT of pure math.

 

And then in the major you have discrete math, algorithm analysis and such so it's even more.

 

If you can eventually take Boylans compilers course. It's hard but it's also really good. Also, take graphics and software engineering. I think they have a web languages course now too.

 

My advice: Don't go into CS unless you love math and theory of computation and want to learn more about these sciences. If you like programming and want to make software, CS is more intensive than a major like MIS and you'll probably be 100X better programmer and more valuable but companies don't always see it this way. And CS is 100X more difficult than MIS. CS has a high drop out rate as well because it is difficult and people don't know what they're really getting into.

 

A CS degree doesn't get the respect it should in the business world either, where you'll likely work afterwards. MIS and CS gets clumped together as "computer work" event though nearly every CS graduate I work with is vastly superior to the MIS guys. But there is also a lot more MIS guys out there.

 

It's fun but challenging. Be sure you're up to the task.

[sauveb]

Gotta love the signature that Beth Weckmueller has. She could be a doctor or a pro athlete.

[Baldkin]

Congrats, Adam.

 

I'm a CS major at UWM myself (and an old guy... sort of.. 28), so if you need any help/tips/advice on getting around campus or anything like that, drop me a pm.

 

Oh.. and learn to love facebook...