<p>My D is a freshman engineering student. She got her first C ever, in Calc III, and was very proud of that C. She worked her butt off. She is in what I would consider a demanding u where she was in the middle 50% of the applicants. </p>
<p>She has a friend who was the val of his class. He was hoping for a C-, the lowest grade you can have and pass. He is a computer engineering student. I’m also positive that he has never seen a C either. </p>
<p>It’s really hard in engineering to not have a lower grade or two. They make these classes hard for a reason I suspect. Don’t have your S beat himself up over his GPA. He will probably have to retake the class he got a D in. </p>
<p>When my S was touring engineering schools, we had a professor confess that he had to take a class over. It didn’t seem to hurt his career and seems to happen to a lot of engineering and CS students.</p>