Is this a bad FA package?

mom2collegekids
Mon, 13 Apr 2015 22:33:18 +0000

When my older son started college, he was in the honors dorm. All 3 of his suitemates, including him, were eng’g majors. By the end of the year, NONE of them were. My older son became a math major, which was better suited for his abilities.

My younger son also started college as an eng’g major. He was also in an honors dorm with 3 suitemates…all eng’g. Only he and one suitemate graduated in eng’g.

The point is that all 8 of these students started out in eng’g. All were in the honors dorms, which means an ACT 28 minimum, but most had a 30-34 ACT. Yet, out of 8 only 2 graduated with eng’g degrees. ONLY TWO.

It’s not enough to be “smart” and/or good at math. You also have to have an eng’g brain…a problem solving brain…a brain that can figure out the most elegant way to do things. Those smarties are a subset of all the smarties.