re: Texas A&M: A warning to petroleum engineering students

LSU's program has ballooned in size, but they also do a lot of weeding out. The biggest hurdle, though, is that most of the large companies only want students with a 3.3 (Shell), or a 3.5 or higher (Exxon, Baker Hughes, ect). LSU weeds a ton of students out (myself included) and those that aren't weeded out, take a GPA beating the first 2 or 3 years. This leads to a pretty large graduating class with GPA's too low to fill the needs of the Exxon's of the world, but too large to fill all of the other jobs out there right away. Many of those PETE grads end up having to take non PETE jobs in the oil or construction industry in order to get by. I feel like I may have dodged a bullet by switching to CM.