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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems like engineering schools are probably losing competent students just because the kids and their parents are used to inflated HS GPAs, believe a B is the equivalent of an F, and think a freshman year GPA of 3.0 means they’re “bad at engineering.”[/quote]

I do wonder though if many good well rounded students wind up pursuing engineering just because they got good grades in HS math - I mean not everyone who can get an A in HS Calculus is ready to be an engineer. I guess the question is what does a parent do about a kid in engineering who can't manage a full course load and fails a fairly standard high level course...do they bail before its gets worse or try to grind through in the hopes that they can make it through and the actual career will be heavy on other skills?[/quote]

This, I was good at math and science and parents directed me towards engineering for career and financial stability. I graduated, worked in the profession but only enjoyed the salary and not the career.

I did not do this to my kids, they studied what they were passionate about and love their career and have a great quality of life.[/quote]

My kid loves math and science in HS.  They do well in Eng/Humanities courses but do not enjoy them and hate writing (in those courses), so something STEM is their happy path.  No desire to be premed or anything medical.  
Chemistry was their favorite science and they were thinking it would be a good major (in Soph year HS) However, they hated labs and had no desire to get their PHD, so we guided them that being a Chem major may not be best fit for them because there is so much lab work with the degree and really the only jobs with just a BS are lab jobs---and those are low paying and more grunt work--you need MS/PHD to do the real fun work and get paid more.  So we encouraged them to look at CS and engineering.  In HS they took CS courses but said no, didn't want to major in it.  They determined Chem Eng was interested and decided to major in that.

Well taking Orgo Fall fresh year in college was enough to determine that yes, they do NOT want to be a chem major and along with their intro to Chem Eng that yes they like Chem Eng.  They also realized that they do like CS (and are good at it) and it is a good cross over with Chem Eng. So they are minoring in CS.  
It's fun to watch them change their path as they take more courses and learn what tools they need to do what they want in their career

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