<p>My guess is the admissions people in engineering just seem to want to set kids up for success. If everything is not quite right, you may end up in US. There is no point in worrying why you did not get into engineering at this point, just do your best when you get to Virginia Tech and you should be fine.Junior son with 710 on math SAT, 650 on CR,5 on AP Physics,etc. had to start out in US. His high school grades could have been better though. Heck, they initially waitlisted him. Probably one of best things that ever happened to him as he seems to have gotten the message and has an almost 3.9 GPA in engineering.</p>