SAT Math Score Too Low. Now What?

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<p>Of course you’ll wind up with a job. Any gpa gives you a job. But I’ll never say its okay to graduate with a low gpa due to this reason. At some point, a low gpa is due to the fact that you were lazy. There’s no way you work your ass off and wind up with a 2.5-2.8 gpa (unless you’re from MIT). Hard work is relative.</p>

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<p>I agree with you, I was just commenting on the statement about still finding a job with a 3.4. Like you, I agree that there is no reason not to work hard, and no reason to accept less than you are capable of. However, there are surely people who work very hard and can’t make a 3.4 in good engineering programs. Depending on the class, I’ve seen curves for A’s made at the top 10% - simply put, there are enough people who are both hard working and very intelligent to take up those grades - leaving people who are only one or the other to collect the B’s.</p>

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<p>OP- My own experience is that providing Choices 1,2, and 3 means exactly what you think it means- if you can’t get Choice 1, you are then considered for Choice 2, etc. Your wife’s interpretation, on the face of it, doesn’t make any sense; if rejection from your first choice means general rejection from the school, why would you be given a Choice 2 and Choice 3?
But if you’re worried about this you really don’t have to guess. Contact the school(s) involved and find out for sure! You may be afraid that this is a dumb question to ask- I had to confirm some similar information when my first son went to college. However, just remember the person on the other end doesn’t need to know who you are! (ha-ha).</p>

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<p>“(unless you’re from MIT).”</p>

<p>Or Cooper, or CalTech, or HMC, or GT…</p>

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<p>Apparently you missed the thread :P</p>

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<p>Check transfer requirements at each school. At some schools, you need to have taken engineering pre-reqs and have earned a very high GPA in order to transfer into engineering. It is really hard to predict which h.s. students will earn a very high GPA freshman year. If my kid really wanted to be an engineer, I would strongly urge him or her choose a school where he or she had been accepted as an engineering major. I really would. But at the schools I am most familiar with, it is pretty darn hard to transfer into engineering if you weren’t originally accepted in the school of engineering. Maybe at other schools, this isn’t as hard.</p>

<p>You can get great engineering training and a great engineering job without having gone to MIT or CalTech.</p>