Anonymous
06/30/2025 09:04
Subject: looking for a school that will take a B kid for engineering who has a ton of service hours
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You need to think about whether your kid will make it through engineering school. Seriously.
I disagree. But the kid described should avoid an engineering program with deliberate weed-out classes.
That would rule out ODU and VT, in Virginia, for example. Fine schools, but both have intentional weed out classes.
Everyone here will disagree, but I would at least apply to UVa Engineering if in state. UVa would place some admissions weight on those kinds of service projects. UVa is small and more supportive and has a high graduation rate in engineering for students who start in engineering.
Depending in student's intended major within engineering, consider CNU and GMU and UMBC.
Lol “weed out” classes exist to “weed out” kids who can’t be engineers. And just stop on UVA. Zero chance. Zero.
No, they exist because the major is oversubscribed any many schools want fewer students in the high level classes.
No, they're not "oversubscribed" because they were admitted to a program which by definition means they have the space. It's all part of the process. Not everyone is meant to be an engineering. And the idea that there are colleges who will admit applicants to engineering programs primarily on the basis of service hours in high school and not academics is laughable and naive. That's not how the admissions process works for ANY major, and especially STEM majors. First you have to have the academics, and only then do AdComs look at the ECs.
I don't know what to tell you. My child has completed the application process successfully (not top 20, but her dream engineering schools) with mediocre grades (mostly Bs, with a smattering of Cs and As) and really strong ECs.
Not top 20? I'm betting not top 100. She didn't get in because of her ECs. She got into a low ranked school that routinely admits kids with average grades.
Anonymous
06/30/2025 08:59
Subject: looking for a school that will take a B kid for engineering who has a ton of service hours
Anonymous
06/30/2025 08:54
Subject: looking for a school that will take a B kid for engineering who has a ton of service hours
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You need to think about whether your kid will make it through engineering school. Seriously.
I disagree. But the kid described should avoid an engineering program with deliberate weed-out classes.
That would rule out ODU and VT, in Virginia, for example. Fine schools, but both have intentional weed out classes.
Everyone here will disagree, but I would at least apply to UVa Engineering if in state. UVa would place some admissions weight on those kinds of service projects. UVa is small and more supportive and has a high graduation rate in engineering for students who start in engineering.
Depending in student's intended major within engineering, consider CNU and GMU and UMBC.
Lol “weed out” classes exist to “weed out” kids who can’t be engineers. And just stop on UVA. Zero chance. Zero.
No, they exist because the major is oversubscribed any many schools want fewer students in the high level classes.
No, they're not "oversubscribed" because they were admitted to a program which by definition means they have the space. It's all part of the process. Not everyone is meant to be an engineering. And the idea that there are colleges who will admit applicants to engineering programs primarily on the basis of service hours in high school and not academics is laughable and naive. That's not how the admissions process works for ANY major, and especially STEM majors. First you have to have the academics, and only then do AdComs look at the ECs.
I don't know what to tell you. My child has completed the application process successfully (not top 20, but her dream engineering schools) with mediocre grades (mostly Bs, with a smattering of Cs and As) and really strong ECs.
Anonymous
06/30/2025 08:51
Subject: Re:looking for a school that will take a B kid for engineering who has a ton of service hours
Anonymous wrote:Engineering is a grind almost anywhere. Would a B student want that or is this more parent-driven?
I posted above that my B student was accepted into 3 engineering schools. She has known that she wanted to be an engineer since she was 8. Her low grades are because of poor executive functioning -- which will certainly be a problem in college, but would be much worse if she wasn't studying her passion.
Anonymous
06/30/2025 08:51
Subject: looking for a school that will take a B kid for engineering who has a ton of service hours
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You need to think about whether your kid will make it through engineering school. Seriously.
I disagree. But the kid described should avoid an engineering program with deliberate weed-out classes.
That would rule out ODU and VT, in Virginia, for example. Fine schools, but both have intentional weed out classes.
Everyone here will disagree, but I would at least apply to UVa Engineering if in state. UVa would place some admissions weight on those kinds of service projects. UVa is small and more supportive and has a high graduation rate in engineering for students who start in engineering.
Depending in student's intended major within engineering, consider CNU and GMU and UMBC.
Lol “weed out” classes exist to “weed out” kids who can’t be engineers. And just stop on UVA. Zero chance. Zero.
No, they exist because the major is oversubscribed any many schools want fewer students in the high level classes.
No, they're not "oversubscribed" because they were admitted to a program which by definition means they have the space. It's all part of the process. Not everyone is meant to be an engineering. And the idea that there are colleges who will admit applicants to engineering programs primarily on the basis of service hours in high school and not academics is laughable and naive. That's not how the admissions process works for ANY major, and especially STEM majors. First you have to have the academics, and only then do AdComs look at the ECs.
Anonymous
06/30/2025 08:46
Subject: looking for a school that will take a B kid for engineering who has a ton of service hours
Take a look at Elizabethtown in PA. On paper, the engineering faculty there is off the charts.
Anonymous
06/30/2025 08:32
Subject: looking for a school that will take a B kid for engineering who has a ton of service hours
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You need to think about whether your kid will make it through engineering school. Seriously.
I disagree. But the kid described should avoid an engineering program with deliberate weed-out classes.
That would rule out ODU and VT, in Virginia, for example. Fine schools, but both have intentional weed out classes.
Everyone here will disagree, but I would at least apply to UVa Engineering if in state. UVa would place some admissions weight on those kinds of service projects. UVa is small and more supportive and has a high graduation rate in engineering for students who start in engineering.
Depending in student's intended major within engineering, consider CNU and GMU and UMBC.
Lol “weed out” classes exist to “weed out” kids who can’t be engineers. And just stop on UVA. Zero chance. Zero.
No, they exist because the major is oversubscribed any many schools want fewer students in the high level classes.
Anonymous
06/30/2025 01:46
Subject: looking for a school that will take a B kid for engineering who has a ton of service hours
It's hard to beat BYU's price as an LDS member.
Anonymous
06/29/2025 22:02
Subject: looking for a school that will take a B kid for engineering who has a ton of service hours
Try Penn state or University of Delaware, doesn't hurt!
Anonymous
06/29/2025 21:54
Subject: looking for a school that will take a B kid for engineering who has a ton of service hours
Cornell engineering? People say some crazy stuff here!!
Anonymous
06/29/2025 21:52
Subject: looking for a school that will take a B kid for engineering who has a ton of service hours
Anonymous wrote:Cornell, hotel management.
Along the line of hospitality, operations, real estate development, or sustainable lodging, etc.
Not a realistic recommendation.
Anonymous
06/29/2025 21:47
Subject: looking for a school that will take a B kid for engineering who has a ton of service hours
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You need to think about whether your kid will make it through engineering school. Seriously.
I disagree. But the kid described should avoid an engineering program with deliberate weed-out classes.
That would rule out ODU and VT, in Virginia, for example. Fine schools, but both have intentional weed out classes.
Everyone here will disagree, but I would at least apply to UVa Engineering if in state. UVa would place some admissions weight on those kinds of service projects. UVa is small and more supportive and has a high graduation rate in engineering for students who start in engineering.
Depending in student's intended major within engineering, consider CNU and GMU and UMBC.
What do you disagree with? I am an engineer and I see nothing wrong with that statement. Engineering is hard no matter where you go.
Anonymous
06/29/2025 21:44
Subject: looking for a school that will take a B kid for engineering who has a ton of service hours
Anonymous wrote:Kettering
I do not think the model would work with LDS missions in college - but who knows.
Anonymous
06/29/2025 21:09
Subject: Re:looking for a school that will take a B kid for engineering who has a ton of service hours
Engineering is a grind almost anywhere. Would a B student want that or is this more parent-driven?
Anonymous
06/29/2025 20:35
Subject: looking for a school that will take a B kid for engineering who has a ton of service hours
RIT for civil engineering technology