My son is a junior civil engineering major and received an email on 12/23 that he is being dismissed from the program due to not meeting the GPA requirements. He was on probation bc of failing calc 3 and missed the GPA requirement by a tenth of a point.

He is going to appeal this due to "extraordinary circumstances" - he has some and we have all the documentation to submit to prove it. Won't go into all that now.

The main question is - if they deny his appeal can he move to another engineering discipline like Industrial Distribution or BAEN? Or is he now unable to be in the dept of engineering at all? We have scoured the website but can't find this info and no one is available to answer these questions until Monday Jan 5th.

Has anyone gone through this? What were your options?

Take the credits he's got, transfer to another university if they will accept the credits of classes he passed, and get his major of choice.

Consider he may not be cut out for engineering and look at a different major unless he really had some "circumstances" that significantly interfered with his ability to commit to course work. Maybe he would do better in a new environment than at A&M?

It's normal in most engineering programs for 30-40% of students to flunk out and change major in the first two years. Calc 3 is a year 2 course… typically second year curriculum including more advanced math like differential equations (comes after calculus) filters out a large number of students.

May want to also consider Construction Science, I know several folks that were Civil and shifted there. Great major and career field as well. Most of all need to talk to a counselor.