SEAS Chem Lab exemtion removed?

grp2013
Wed, 17 Jul 2013 15:20:00 +0000

@blue, I completely agree. It’s funny because my son also was specifically looking at schools that had a MechE major and Aero minor - and it was here, after being accepted, that we found the change had been made a year earlier but didn’t show up in external informational places yet. Like you, we looked at the “reality” being a minor really wasn’t deserved with only the few course differences from the MechE requirements, and that he was really getting the same education he wanted just without the word “minor” - and obviously he chose to go to UVa with that knowledge.

I don’t know if they gave my S a reason that they weren’t doing the Chem Lab exemption anymore - i.e. whether it was due to the professor himself (retired, not wanting to review the notebooks, etc.) or just a general decision about the necessity of the lab. Either way, he’s decided to take it in Spring instead of Fall.