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?

This almost happened to me (not due to other circumstances, just that engineering is too damn hard). I had discussions with my advisors about my options and none of them involved any other field of engineering. Luckily I squeaked by.

I had a buddy who wasn't so lucky (his senior year), and the above poster is correct, you have to take the credits and transfer to another university.

Sorry to hear this. I still have nightmares about grades coming out at the end of the semester. It's a brutal 4 years.

BAEN is a great major with strong job placement. I'd have him chat with them.

The first two years in CVEN sucks. Chemistry, Calc, DiffEQ. Thank God for Mr. Bill back in the day. Not sure what your options are or if appeal would be successful. Do Q-drops still exist?

I 2nd construction science. A&M has a great program and they need some more engineering minded people. Civil engineering won't be a good field if you don't pass the PE and if hes struggling now that is a risk.

Good advice here...
I was in the same situation back in the day. I grew up thinking I wanted to be in engineering. The grades just never materialized and I always thought "once I get into my upper level courses it'll get better."

Engineering uses the lower level courses to weed people out. Math, Physics,& (to a lesser extent) Chem, are used to cut the numbers. Math/Calculus especially being taught from a purely theoretical standpoint with zero mention of how it is applied to life. (I later learned my issues, in addition to a weak foundation in Trig, is that I'm an applied learner and need more than the underlying theory)

Any other engineering school will absolutely accept him and he'll more than likely excel under professors that teach for the love of teaching and not out of necessity to continue research.

IF he's able to get back into the program @ A&M then he needs to wrap up his math requirements at Blinn or a JuCo back home this summer.