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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If her grades are average, engineering will be a very hard major for her. All those 'top" school are out, because there is so much competition with students whose grades are excellent. Even those students find engineering to be a very tough major. If your DD is not finding core subjects of math, physics, and math user courses like statistics fairly easy, she will find college level engineering very hard, and it will be very discouraging. Don't set your DD up for failure in college.[/quote]
Agree.  Freshman year will be all weed out math and science courses designed to get rid of those that can't hack it. If she doesn't have a strong call and Chen background even the first semester will be brutal. Then once they add in physics she could be sunk. Freshman year you're deriving physics formulas. It's not easy at all. [/quote]
Students don't need to be brilliant, though. They just need to work hard.  Those classes are more about daily practice and hard work than about being brilliant.  I know plenty of engineers who got average grades in high school and in engineering school. They managed to slog through it by sheet grit and hard work.  It's more important to work hard, than it is to be brilliant.  [/quote]
100% correct. As long as she's reasonably bright (figure mathematical reasoning at the 70th percentile or better) and took real math and science classes in high school, it's all about her willingness to grind.[/quote]

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