I never heard of any Civil graduates making $50K out of school. If that's the case then things have definitely changed for the better since I came out of school (Spring 03').
-Didn't stress when studying (worrying about getting in 300+ hours of problem solving)
-Learned how to quickly determine what the questions are asking for and if you can work the problem
-Learned how to skip questions
-Don't rush when doing calculations (you would be suprised at how many...
I believe somewhere it is written that since they have switched to the scantron/electronic grading there has never been someone who passed becuase of having their test hand scored, after initially failing.
That pretty much sums it up to me.
If you put an "*" in the name filed of the DPOR license loop-up page, it will give you a total figure of licenses per discipline. The P.E. total increased by 3 from yesterday to this morning.