I am curious way is it hard to graduate from Mines in four years, and, if you don’t mind, which university did your daughter receive the scholarship from? Thanks.
Mines is notoriously hard with their weed-out classes. Even though the average ACT is somewhere around 31 now, it isn’t unusual to fail a class or two first semester. Most majors have way more than 120 credits required to graduate (Chem E is 135 credits) which also makes it difficult to graduate on time unless you can handle a very heavy and challenging credit load.
Regarding 4 year graduations:
The only data I found was from 2019 that pegged a 4 year graduation at Mines was 55%. As a comparison point Purdue (the whole school not just the engineering program was 59.7%). We did not ask at Mines, but I asked on the Purdue engineering tour about 4 year graduation rates. Purdue engineering focuses on “on time” graduation rates rather than 4 years. It factors in Co-op and study abroad opportunities that will absolutely delay a 4 year degree, but can certainly be worth the extra time when it leads to experience and future employment opportunities. I would suspect that Mines has the same philosophy as they also offer those programs.
I can’t speak to weed out classes, but it is engineering. I certainly expect my son to struggle with course work and course load/time management no matter where he goes. We have had long conversations about that with him along the way.
Not trying to defend Mines, but I think most schools have a large number of kids take an extra year or at least summer school to complete their degree.
Curious question, does the Mines just send an email for acceptance or do students also get a letter in the mail?
S22 accepted on 10/29; no snail mail yet.
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My daughter graduated in 4 years (8 semesters) with a civil engineering degree from Florida Tech, as school much like Mines in size and percentage of engineers. She really had no choice as her scholarships were for 8 consecutive semesters. She knew that was required as I didn’t have the money to pay for extra semesters.
It can be done if students decide to do it. She needed 131 credits to graduate. She did not change her major. I think she dropped two classes, one that she had to reschedule and the other she never took again. It was a lot of work, but it can be done.
When comparing scholarships, make sure of the restrictions. My daughter’s main scholarships were for 8 consecutive semesters. Her state scholarship ran out after 120 credits (even though she needed 131).
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I was accepted 10/29 (from the 9/15 deadline), still no physical mail
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Last year, my son did get an acceptance via snail mail but it was quite a while after his email.
My son was just admitted to Mines tonight, $9K merit scholarship OOS. Wasn’t expecting December decisions until next week so a nice surprise!
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S22 applied Nov1 Ea, was accepted this afternoon. Whoo hoo!
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Yep, DD got OOS acceptance today. “Update” splash was in the applicant portal.
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