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What majors do I need to take to become a Weapon Desginer? and Good Colleges for it?

I wanted to get into the MIT, but my freshmen grades knocked me off the list, (C's, D's, and even probably F's don't remember...) it probably knocked me off of any top college list; only if a win a really prestigious national award or something (which I really doubt) I could have a chance to get in. Any ways, what is a good college (acceptable) to study weapon designing? and What majors do I need to take? Because I heard I need to take, chemistry, physics, mechanics, I don't know a whole lot of things, I want a solid answer please and thanks. I am not still sure what type of weapons I want to design, but since most of my knowledge bases on ground combat weapons, (examples, M-16, TAR-21, M-32) then I guess I would like to design ground combat weapons. I would also like to design nuclear weapons, but to do so I bet you need to be a smarty pants and that is not me, so I guess I'll scratch that one out for meanwhile. Thanks again.

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1. To design conventional weapons, you should major in mechanical engineering. Unless you want to design explosives, then major in chemical or materials engineering. Nuclear weapons are designed by physicists, or at least they would be if we were actually still developing them. With C's and D's, your only option will probably be a public state university. Or go to community college for a couple years and bring your GPA up.
2. You need to come to terms with the fact that modern weapons design requires at least one degree in Engineering. Given your botched High School experience, you're not going to make it. You ought also be aware that weapons designers undergo a battery of psychological tests to make sure they're not complete nut jobs — to weed out for example the type of person who is obsessive about weapons and asks the same height about his height twenty+ times on Yahoo Answers.