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I'm an engineer too! Alright, looking at that schedule...
Yes, those math classes are pretty easy, as long as you stay on top of things. You don't get a professor at all for algebra, but you do for vector. For both courses you have to go down to the Math Emporium at the university mall to take tests. It's basically a giant room with tons of computers. The University Mall has a bus that runs to it at most hours, is open just about always and is within medium walking distance. The art class is the easiest thing I've ever seen. Show up to 4 "art events," take 4 easy tests, and if you pass then you're done. No A-F grading, just pass fail.
The engineering class is unavoidable, but be warned that it is a weed-out class, and will take a lot of time. It's just a bad class all around. If you put time into it, though, you can pull off a B or A. It's just really mind-numbingly tedious and you won't really learn anything. Textbook definition of a weedout class. I don't know anything about the Galileo seminar except that I'm pretty sure it isn't that time consuming. English take a little time for reading and what not, but it's required so its sort of a moot point.
I wouldn't push your son away from entomology. It satisfys a core requirement (they're always annoying to schedule around so getting it out of the way now is good) and while I didn't take it last year, my roommate did and it didn't seem to take up a lot of his time or be very hard. I think they also test at the Math Emporium.
Now for my physics rant. IF YOUR SONS PROFESSOR IS NOT NAMED CHANG HIT REFRESH ON THE COURSE REQUEST OVER AND OVER AND OVER UNTIL YOU CAN GET INTO HIS CLASS. I cannot stress this enough. There is exactly one good lower level physics professor at Virginia Tech. His name is Chang. It is worth taking an 8am class to get him.
The over-accepted thing might be a bit misleading. They tend to do that every year, but this year was worse than most since after the events of last year they didn't hand out academic suspensions. So people that normally would have not been at VT next year are now in the dorms and that threw things off a bit. It should correct itself.
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