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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter thinks she wants to pursue engineering, mainly because STEM classes are her strongest subjects (particularly physics--she loved the E&M part of physics C.)
However, she really doesn't know what an engineer does in any concrete sense (she's never shadowed one at work and we don't have any in our family).

As we tour colleges she's loved a number that don't have engineering programs and her reply is always "well then I'll study physics or biology."
Case in point: Emory (which has a 5-6 year engineering program with GT but she has zero interest in doing 5-6 years of undergrad and I'm not paying for 5-6.)
Now I have no idea what she'd do with a physics or biology degree (she has no desire to pursue a straight PhD.)
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I guess what I'm asking is, if your child thought they wanted to study engineering but then for other reasons chose a school that didn't offer
engineering, what did they study and how did this work out?[/b]

Thank you so much. [/quote]

Does her high school offer any engineering classes? Are there any engineering clubs - robotics etc she can join? Is there a local college she can investigate their summer STEM programs. Our kid was unsure - strong in STEM, took several engineer-based courses offered his senior year in high school - went from thinking "maybe Physics is close enough" to "yes I want to be an engineer". It changed the schools he applied to - granted timing was tough since he started the HS classes fall of senior year - same time he was applying. The large flagship schools would have had the engineering option, but the smaller SLAC ones didn't or they do the 3-2 which we were advised against. [/quote]

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