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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Engineering at UMD is very flexible and supportive. Direct admits to the engineering school can choose any engineering major since there is no limit to the number of students who can declare a major in any particular engineering department. And since all engineering students take basically the same classes for the first year, they can easily change their major within engineering during that first year. Students can stay in engineering as long as they keep a 2.0 in all required classes. (if they are not direct admits to the engineering school, students can apply internally but will need at least a 3.0 in all gateway classes). They offer lots of tutoring and support for engineering students, especially for the intro engineering classes in their Keystone program.  [/quote]

In contrast...
One of the schools my child rejected required a 3.2 to continue in her intended major and a 3.5 for some of the others.  If you don't cut it, you get one more semester to bring your grades up and if you don't, you are off to liberal arts.  This is despite an admissions letter that said "direct admit" but it really wasn't.  She chose a school that was more like UMD.

It isn't easy to maintain a 3.2 when the mean for some of your classes is below a 3.0 - all it takes is one stumble. Some kids obviously can do this, but there are plenty of kids who don't thrive in a 300 person class (like all the intro engineering classes) or who take a little longer to make the transition to college.  I personally didn't want my kid to go a school where middling wasn't good enough to get past freshman year. I know too many people who are successful professionals who stumbled at the beginning of college for me to believe that this requirement screens out the right kids. Didn't seem like a good investment to me.[/quote]

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