<p>I’d say you will not get Engineering as your first choice, but maybe University Studies. You can change your major to Engineering once/if the requirements are met, usually as a Sophmore at Tech. Please see my post from 12/5 titled “University Studies to Engineering//Upcoming Change in Requirement”. There are links in my post that will help you understand the process of changing majors into engineering once a student at Tech. It will also take you to a page that will allow you to learn more about the courses a freshman engineering students (or University Studies major planning on switching) will need to take. If you do a key word search on ‘engineering’ for this VT forum board you will get a HUGE amount of helpful information from many questions and answers that are very similar to yours. Make sure to browse the more recent posts though as information from several years back may no longer be accurate. </p>
<p>Getting into Engineering as an incoming freshman is very competative and I see students getting in with at least a 4.0 GPA and very strong SAT’s (650+ in each area). VT has also implemented a change for internal change of major to engineering more difficult - used to be a 2.0 overall at VT was needed. Incoming freshman beginning next summer will need a 3.0 to change their major into engineering. </p>
<p>Best of luck to you.</p>