chmcnm
December 30, 2019, 12:18pm
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cshell2:
chmcnm:
How do you think the <10% who don’t get their first choice feel? I bet they’re not all happy about it.
S20 is looking at business schools. Direct admission is a deal breaker. I don’t blame him. If you have other equal choices not sure why anyone would risk it.
Meh. If my kid can’t be in the top 90% of those applying to the major he probably doesn’t belong there. I’m sure more than 10% of students that go to college to major in engineering find out that it’s not their cup of tea once they actually get into the classes. That’s why we’re deliberately choosing large universities with a lot of other options if that happens.
But really, weeding out happens if you’re direct admit or not. Iowa State is direct admit, but the attrition rate for engineering is very high. They never kick you out, you can keep trying no matter what your GPA, but I’m not sure whoever is footing the bill would be thrilled with you constantly retaking classes either.
So if your kid had a 3.5 GPA at end of freshman year and the cutoff was 3.6 for their engineering choice you’d be ok with that? I wouldn’t.
If your kid had a 2.3 GPA then yes. It might be time to look at other options. It depends on the policies and the weeding out process that particular college uses.