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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]VT fails sooo many students in engineering. Such a shame. We keep hearing the our country needs more STEM grads.  VT takes the top math students in the country and then fails them - well, 50% of them. For that reason I would go to Penn State. [/quote]

This is just wrong.  The kids can't hack it or don't like it and move to "easier" majors like business or English or whatever.  I was in life sciences at Tech almost 2 decades ago and that was true then too.  The science majors and engineering majors take a lot of science and math and they have to stick with it and learn it and take more the next year.  The classes are hard and large and Tech does not coddle.  There is help if you need it but you have to seek it out.  You do your homework, study the material and take the test.  In Chemistry, the grade was based on a mid-term and a final.  No homework or any crap like that.  So, if you never read your work and studied and tried to cram at the end, and a lot of kids do that, then the final grade reflected that.  I went from Tech to law school and law school was the same.  I did well in both.

Kids who need weekly assignments and affirmation and smaller doses and are not disciplined and do not keep up or seek out help do not do well in large sciences classes (or law school).  Tech has lots of options.  Sorry parents, it is the kids who are "failing" and moving on to other majors.  I actually think those kids are realizing that science or engineering is not for them and they find a major that is better suited to their strengths.  Tech is huge and offers so many other options--all the liberal arts majors, animal science, architecture.  The world is your oyster.

GO HOKIES![/quote]

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