<p>“Beware to all applicants- What I read and got info from CC and those attending is students are accepted to engineering but not officially in the program until they take an engineering class that is required and was told by admissions that the students have such a hard time getting that they can’t get it until sophomore year. Can’t take any engineering classes until this is taken. Friends sons best friend is a Junior at VT and is home this semester. He did not get a math class he needs and can’t take ANY classes until he has it. He is home for the semester. This Junior likes VT and does not like the professors. He is probably in a minority here, but it would upset me if my son could not take the classes he needs or had to graduate in 5 years due to that.”</p>
<p>Um, No. If you are accepted into engineering you are GUARANTEED to get into the engineering class, and you are in the College of Engineering. What you can’t do until your sophomore year is choose which specific section of engineering (Computer Science, Materials Science, Industrial, etc.) you want to do. If you are NOT accepted into engineering but want to try and transfer then you can’t take the engineering class till sophomore year, and you’re very probably a year behind. But if you are accepted into the college of engineering when you apply to VT you WILL get into freshman engineering. Period. Math classes fill up notoriously fast but also are notorious for having a lot of force adds. They deliberately underbook the classes so that they can add people that are required to take them for their major/other classes, and if you fill out the force-add form you should get into a section. If somebody finds themselves in a position where they are actually unable to take any classes due to a math pre-req they’ve failed miserably at planning out their schedule (which especially engineers should do once they decide on a branch of engineering) and for some reason refused to use a force-add. So yeah, I’m pretty sure you haven’t gotten the full story from your friend’s son, and I don’t want people to think that we really aren’t letting freshman engineers take the freshman engineering class.</p>