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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our son is pursing a mechanical engineering degree at Clemson.  His GPA is terrible -- barely above 2.0.  He says that this is not atypical for engineering majors and that their classes are much more rigorous and much more difficult to pass than those of non-engineering majors.  We are quite concerned and are wondering if this is at all accurate. 
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My kid has a low GPA at his ranked 25 engineering school - not as low as that, but not too far above. If I were you, OP, I would poke around the "admission to the major" statistics on the "continuing student" portion of the website.  Your kid is in the bottom half of the class for sure (which is fine - half the kids are) but whether his GPA is dangerously low or not would be school specific.  I know that at my son's school your kid might have to choose a different major (MechE does have a cutoff based on GPA) but he'd still have many choices.

I also know that 15 percent of the kids in his second year math class were failed - those are SECOND YEARS!

So your kid is struggling, but your kid isn't a disaster.  And he's right about non-engineering classes.  My kid's worst grade so far in a non-engineering class is a B+.[/quote]

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