Are weed out class done hard on purpose?

[Anonymous]

To decrease demand from high demand majors ?

[Anonymous]

Depends on the school. Cue the “public u grinds” poster.

[Anonymous]

I think they’re just hard classes.

[Anonymous]

If you go see a doctor, would you want a charlatan or somebody who knows his material?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you go see a doctor, would you want a charlatan or somebody who knows his material?

His?

[Anonymous]

You mean everyone should get a trophy for showing up? Of course it's on purpose.

[Anonymous]

They’re a state school and huge private thing.

[Anonymous]

They are traditionally hard classes, they do need to be made hard. Students that have what it takes will get through them; those that don’t, don’t.

Examples: Calculus, Organic Chemistry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you go see a doctor, would you want a charlatan or somebody who knows his material?

His?

Doctors can’t be male? Who knew?

[Anonymous]

They help maintain the integrity of the program, ensure a strong cohort in higher level classes, and keep ties strong with employer contacts.

So, yeah, hard.

[Anonymous]

Harsh public university curves are to weed out a predetermined xx% of freshmen because they don't have the seats, faculty, or department funding for all of them. They want to funnel xx% of them to soft departments, which are far cheaper for the university, thus higher margins. It's all about the bottom line and it's all pretty disgusting. Especially because a lot of international students are ruthless cheaters and utilize test banks and other cheating methods to dominate the top of these courses. I know pre-meds and nurses who transferred colleges after doing too "poorly" on first year weed-out courses and successfully became nurses and MDs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harsh public university curves are to weed out a predetermined xx% of freshmen because they don't have the seats, faculty, or department funding for all of them. They want to funnel xx% of them to soft departments, which are far cheaper for the university, thus higher margins. It's all about the bottom line and it's all pretty disgusting. Especially because a lot of international students are ruthless cheaters and utilize test banks and other cheating methods to dominate the top of these courses. I know pre-meds and nurses who transferred colleges after doing too "poorly" on first year weed-out courses and successfully became nurses and MDs.

and engineers*

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you go see a doctor, would you want a charlatan or somebody who knows his material?

True but I remember reading an article that discussed whether future doctors really need to be good at calculus or organic chemistry (the answer was no…). It went on to discuss how so many people get weeded out which is unfortunate because many of these folks would have made great doctors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harsh public university curves are to weed out a predetermined xx% of freshmen because they don't have the seats, faculty, or department funding for all of them. They want to funnel xx% of them to soft departments, which are far cheaper for the university, thus higher margins. It's all about the bottom line and it's all pretty disgusting. Especially because a lot of international students are ruthless cheaters and utilize test banks and other cheating methods to dominate the top of these courses. I know pre-meds and nurses who transferred colleges after doing too "poorly" on first year weed-out courses and successfully became nurses and MDs.

We knew you’d be here!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harsh public university curves are to weed out a predetermined xx% of freshmen because they don't have the seats, faculty, or department funding for all of them. They want to funnel xx% of them to soft departments, which are far cheaper for the university, thus higher margins. It's all about the bottom line and it's all pretty disgusting. Especially because a lot of international students are ruthless cheaters and utilize test banks and other cheating methods to dominate the top of these courses. I know pre-meds and nurses who transferred colleges after doing too "poorly" on first year weed-out courses and successfully became nurses and MDs.

We knew you’d be here!

What are test banks?