OP, any idea where a 3.0 GPA places your daughter with respect to other students in her class? When I was in college (which was admittedly a long time ago), a 3.0 was considered to be a solid GPA in a difficult major like electrical engineering. That said, CMU has a reputation as being a major grind, which your post seems too confirm. My son looked at CMU when he was applying to colleges a couple of years ago and decided he wanted no part of it. If your daughter doesn’t think she can handle seven more semesters like the one she just experienced, changing majors or transferring to a different school might be the thing to do.