Auraslip,
UNT is my alma mater.
High school math was very easy for me. I took my first year of college calculas while in high school at the university of Northern Iowa. 1st entered college a year and a half after high school. They told me I should be a physics major. I really struggled and ended up retaking for no credit calculas one a second time because I had forgotten all of it after a year and a half.
Physics requires, as does electrical engineering, a more thorough calculas than most general engineering students. All of the calculas I took in college was 4 hours, vs 3 hours for standard calculas and had an additional 4 hrs a week of math lab. Very intense. I learned to study. Up at 5 am, generally studied until 10 pm, sometimes later. Combined with the required 4 hour labs for chemistry and physics, along with 4 hour chemistry and physics classes. I usually did'nt study a lot on the weekends. The good students studied or where in class from 6 am until 10 pm 7 days a week for 4 years. I was not a good student.
I went to school for a semester, then worked for a semester. This was the only way I could make ends meet which was also very detrimental to my studies. You get to forgeting the math and I always was playing catch up.
Then the big bang, I transferred to the physics program at The Univ. of Texas, Dallas. I went from nuclear engineering at UNI to electrical engineering at UTD, mostly antenna theory my junior year, again, the math was different and I had to retake some calculas at UTD that applied to electrical engineering that was ommited at my previous university.
Electrical engineering is a very demanding, if not the most demanding engineering dicsipline. I went to the University of North Texas and got my Accounting degree there, highly regarded school for that. Accounting is an extremely easy field as compared to engineering. Up at 7 am, study between classes, no labs, done studying at 4 pm, oh, I think I studied some on weekends for finals.
UTD is probably the best school in Texas for electrical engineering, Motorala, Nortel, Collins Radio, E-systems, Rockwell, all here in Richardson, all recruit heavily from UTD, All support UTD also.
Electrical engineering is all math, lots of lab, interesting lab too, by the way. You will learn more every month than you would think is possible.
I did find that UNT was very unfriendly when it came to transferring credits, Myy Godd, they would'nt take anything from UNI or UTD, they accepted my math and my science, no history, english, computer classes, nothing.
So, make sure before going to any community college that UNT will accept those hours, in writing.
You will for the early calculas classes get a better education at your community college than at UNT,
If you are serious, you should consider UTD
chuck