How good is Wisconsin engineering/OOS chances?

ClassicRockerDad
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:24:44 +0000

Just an outsider point of view, and maybe I’ve missed a lot of the discussion, but I detect some pretty bizzare personal tit-for-tats among grownups. I thought we were all here to help each other.

I’ve found both wis75 and barrons to be enjoyable and helpful contributors to CC over the years. Sure they have a pro Wisconsin bias, but what alums aren’t proud of their school. They’ve always provided useful information and barrons even got the administration to look at a problem with first year students with lots of APs who get sophomore status second semester getting locked out of freshman seminars, a result nobody intended (hopefully that’s fixed). My D applied there as her safety but got into her first choice.

I think the real interesting discussion is whether students are getting locked out of the classes they need - as is the case in the California publics, or are they taking longer to graduate because Engineering at Wisconsin is very hard and they are taking a lighter load so that they learn what they need to learn better - not a bad approach, or coop, or is it because of some other productive reason.

Also, I’m not sure why we are talking about UVA for engineering. I would think the real techie oriented kids in VA would go to Virginia Tech anyway. I know 10 times as many engineers from Virginia Tech as from UVA.

In the spirit of the CC terms of service, I think that we can have an intelligent lively discussion without the personal attacks. C’mon folks.