3.8 is insane … One approach is to take no AP credit, which could set you back, and then still hope that the average grade is not a C. Or take a low course load. Or drop classes a week before finals when you have a C. Second 2 might delay graduation …
10 classes per year … you need 38 grade points. So let’s say you get 9 As, you can get one C. Or let’s say you get 8 As, you can get 2 Bs. Anything less you are not competitive …
Unless your kid is one of those people with 5s on 15 AP tests who always is the smartest kid in their class, which is of course a vigorous high school … or the 2 schools aren’t really top tier (but I think they are)
Take the school with direct admit and without a lot of restrictions to get into other engineering disciplines. I hope they are the same.
Engineering all starts with calc, chem, physics, an intro class and some english type class and maybe computers. You can go into any engineering discipline with that.
If this isn’t true, please point me to the website and show me the mandatory freshman class(es) …