<p>My daughter got rejected today from NC State aerospace engineering program. She is broken and I don't know how to help or where to go from here. She didn't hAve a backup school. I have a daughter with less credentials that got in to the engineering program there. I don't know if it's to late to apply elsewhere. Maybe ecu for their engineering program. Any can help I would appreciate it.</p>
<p>Does NC have a transfer agreement between the community college system and NCSU? That’s an option to consider.</p>
<p>Found something for UNC-Ashville and NC State
[2+2</a> Engineering Program](<a href=“http://www2.unca.edu/ncsu_engr/index_2+2.html]2+2”>http://www2.unca.edu/ncsu_engr/index_2+2.html)</p>
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<p>UNCA apparently had a February 20th deadline. UNCW also has a 2+2, but they had a February 1 deadline. </p>
<p>NCSU lists Lenoir Community College and Craven Community College as being the only other 2+2 schools in the state (from here [Distance</a> Education @ NC State University](<a href=“http://distance.ncsu.edu/programs/undergraduate-site-based-2-plus-2-engineering-program]Distance”>Engineering – 2+2 | NC State Online and Distance Education)). Both have rolling admissions.</p>
<p>Oh! UNCC has a March 30th deadline. They don’t have Aerospace Engineering, but it’s a decent engineering school and she could transfer to NCSU after a year or so.</p>
<p>She has no reason to be upset. If she does the first year or two of college at a local community college, and gets decent grades- she has many options to transfer to great engineering schools.</p>
<p>That’s what I did, and I don’t regret it at all!</p>
<p>Others are suggesting exactly what I was about to suggest. Start at a community college, so she can take her physics and math prerequisites (ideally she’d attend a community college that taught differential equations, linear algebra, introductory calc-based physics, etc.) for at least a year. A lot of CCs have agreements with four-year universities, usually it’s the local city CC having an agreement with all state universities, for instance I’m at Columbus State Community College now and will later attend Ohio State, where I applied two years ago and was rejected. You may find the nearest CC to NC State will just happen to have a program for people intending to transfer to NC State engineering college. LOTS of people do the CC-to-engineering route.</p>
<p>This may seem like a slower route or step backwards or something but it’s really not, if she was at NC State right now she’d just be taking calc, intro physics, etc., (MAYBE some introductory “general engineering” type of classes). If she was at a CC right now she’d be taking the same thing, only at a CC she’d be in smaller class sizes being taught by actual professors, rather than in huge lecture halls being taught by grad students.</p>
<p>I am a highschooler from a school in Connecticut. Due to the economic downturn (no, not all of us are rich in Connecticut), many families have recognized that they are not going to be able to pay for 4 years of college. So MANY, MANY, MANY kids who are incredibly smart are going to study at the local Community College for the first couple of years. I am sure that your daughter is a smart girl and that she will begin her courses there and transfer later.</p>
<p>Also, you need to remember that what matters is what one does during the four years of college, not before. If she works hard, then she will be able to take full advantage of all the opportunities that she sees. I actually had a friend who had terrible grades all through high school and actually ended up going to Community College. There, he said that he “learned more than he had anywhere else” and now he lives in a house that is over $5 million.</p>
<p>Look at what´s going on in Japan -the families who lost their homes and members, children who lost their parents, in the Middle East with the states´ murders of people who ask for basic human rights and everywhere else. Somebody tell me that your daughter, despite the circumstances, is still not one of the luckiest people in the world. She needs to hold her head up high and begin to thank you -at least- for living the way she does. I can assure you that, in 20 years, the day where she didn´t get into this university will not matter. At all.</p>
<p>There are many 4 year schools that have rolling admissions or deadlines as late as August if you are willing to look out of state.</p>
<p>Wow, talk about a tangent, max.</p>
<p>Thanks for the help guys. She did apply recently to ECU and UNCC but no word yet. We will keep in mind the CC’s because we not sure if 3.6 gpa and 1680 sat are good enough. </p>
<p>It’s nice that there is a place where complete strangers help each other. More so when I don’t know much about college because I went straight to the Army after school. </p>
<p>Thanks</p>