<p>The irony in my situation is based on his first semester and initial engineering interest, my son is doing an internship this summer that is definitely more related to civil/mechanical engineering than it is to math . . .and liking it a lot. But I have always thought he would thrive more in the workplace than in academia so I don’t think he necessarily is making a poor choice not to pursue engineering academically. </p>
<p>Jsrcmom, I really don’t think there is much harm in starting off in engineering as it is easy to switch out, but very hard to transfer in. We are super happy with the LAC, and I really hope your son finds the same happiness. I think what I learned as a parent is that it was important to step back and let him make the college choice, obviously within financially feasible parameters. He loved LACs right from the get go, and I think we wasted some time with looking at larger Universities that really were not fits. Best of luck to your son next year!! I hope he really likes engineering, but if not math seems very employable . . .in fact math and actuary and statistics careers all made the Wall Street Journal’s top ten career paths along with some engineering choices. It is so natural to worry!!</p>