Reply to VA Tech Math Department: majoring in math a viable option or a mistake?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "VA Tech Math Department: majoring in math a viable option or a mistake?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Talk to me about the math department at VA Tech? I know VA Tech is hard to get into and she may not. Just asking if my daughter should even consider it if she wants to major in math?  Some engineering students we know have reported poor math instruction, particularly in the Math Emporium. Is this issue limited to engineering students or would majoring in math at VA Tech be a mistake?

Background: My daughter is currently a sophomore in high school, where she has maintained a straight-A record so far. Despite her academic success, her dyslexia may limit her ability to show rigor, i.e., take AP English or Social Studies courses required for admission to UVA and many other schools. As a 10th-grader, she is taking all honors core classes, with AP Calculus AB for math and AP Computer Science A as one elective. She is on year 2 of Latin. Her GPA is 4.4 weighted / 4.0 unweighted, and she has yet to take the SAT.

Originally she wanted to do computer science. But, given the competitive nature of CS and her desire to try to run track in college (she has qualifying D2 times as a HS sophomore and aspirations for D1), my daughter believes that majoring in math would be an easier option for admission and academic success while balancing her athletic pursuits.[b] Is this a reasonable assumption?[/b][u]

Her father was a math major at Princeton who upon graduation, pursued a career in software engineering and now works as a cloud architect. My daughter wants to follow a similar career path (get into tech by way of majoring in math).

UVA is her dream school, but she does not think she would not meet the academic requirements for admission since she plans to only take AP courses in math and science, which entail less reading and writing than English and Social Studies, due to her dyslexia.

[b]Should she even consider majoring in math at VA Tech? [/b][/u][/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics