I can't figure out what to do, please help

DadTwoGirls
Sun, 02 Jun 2019 16:07:08 +0000

“However, it is the exact opposite school than the one I wanted to go to.”

What type of school do you want to go to? Why did you apply to VT?

“My biggest problem with my high school is I hated how glorified football was.”

I am very sympathetic with your dislike of football. It is a dangerous sport, and I don’t see why great football players are glorified and great scholars are not. Which quarterback has won the most superbowls? Everyone knows the answer. Who did the structural engineering for the golden gate bridge? Hardly anyone knows the answer. However, every time that I have driven over the golden gate bridge I have been impressed by the engineering behind it, and whoever did do the structural engineering accomplished something of very real and very lasting value. It is also beautiful.

However, you do not have to participate in the football rah-rah just because you are at a school with a football team. I did my bachelor’s degree at a school that did not even have a football team. I did my master’s at a school where football was a big deal. However, if you did not go to games, you would not notice the difference. Outside of the actual games (at one school), people were focused on academics at both schools.

“I am not too fond of the class size.”

There are very few small schools that are good at engineering. Large class sizes is sort of the cost of being a freshman and an engineering major. When I think “small” and “strong at engineering” I think of Caltech and Harvey Mudd, but your grades and SAT scores do not suggest that you are going to get accepted to either.

“What swung me towards Virginia Tech was the way the engineering program was run.”

VT is very good and quite well known for engineering.

If you want to be an engineer, then you can do very well at Virginia Tech.

Did you already apply to the various Universities of California and get turned down? Are you able to afford Virginia Tech? To me it seems like a great place for someone who wants to be an engineer.