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<p>Well, of course I can’t argue with that. He really should find some way to review his Alg II. It would be a good test of his diligence if nothing else. Nobody is denying you need to be able to do math to be an engineer.</p>
<p>But I am honestly getting a chuckle out of the posts on here which make it out like you have to be some sort of math accelerated genius to even possibly be able to graduate from engineering school. I have BS degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering and I assure you I am no genius. Mainly engineering school, or any technical school, requires a reasonable level of intelligence, interest, and a lot of hard work.</p>
<p>I was fairly accelerated in math in high school, many years ago. I was a good student and didn’t go through my period of “bombing out” until about Junior year of college, but I went back and finished up. I am certain many of my colleagues took Algebra II junior year of high school, and at least some of them struggled with it, but still finished their degrees more expeditiously than I did.</p>
<p>If the OPs son wants to give it a shot, he can get in somewhere reasonable, and she is willing to support him, then the worst that will happen is he’ll be one of the 2/3rds of kids who drop out of engineering every year (something I read somewhere up-thread).</p>