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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What engineering programs are recommended where DC isn’t constantly worried about not making the cut.  It sounds like Pitt is accommodating, any ithers?[/quote]

No such thing. Engineering is a demanding major. [b]If your kid cannot handle, it’s better to find out early than later[/b]. Also, that probably means your kid won’t enjoy career as an engineer. I would not push it. [/quote]

The BS part of that is that a single trip-up freshman year means a person can't handle an entire career.  There are just too many examples around of successful people who stumbled at the beginning.

Yes, engineering is demanding.  And certainly some students should move on.  But that doesn't change the facts:

* some schools are using the weed-out process differently than others.

* an engineering student with a 3.2 freshman year is very different from one with a 2.2.  At most schools the 2.2 kid will probably need to move on or regroup.  As for the 3.2 kid... at some schools the kid can move ahead to sophomore year and at others it is "thanks for all the money, now see ya."

And yes, there is a budget element - at one school I talked to in a state facing budget cuts, the state forced the school to increase the number of engineering students so they increased the number of freshman engineering students.  but not sophomores.

And for a bunch of people claiming to be engineers (and have statistical training) - y'all seem oblivious to the fact that your GPA is endogenous.  If you are at Brown and score at the 50th percentile on the calc exam, you probably get an A. If you are at many public engineering schools, you get a B-, if that.

Parents: read the portion of the school websites for CONTINUING students, and discuss some of the weed-out issues with your kid.  I would much rather my kid be a mechanical engineer out of Pitt (even at full fees) than an economics major out of VT (a major he might choose after the weedout.)

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Are you a practicing engineer? I am guessing not.[/quote]

Something very similar and equally technical.[/quote]

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