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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP.  I feel as if you're talking about "weed out" classes in a negative way.[/quote]

Not intentionally being negative. It is just a choice colleges make - in any field and not just in engineering.

VT and schools like it do a huge beneficial service to late bloomers by accepting more freshmen than they have room for in later years. They give those students a fair chance to show they can make it.  Some highly qualified matriculants probably will drop out (meaning merely switch major in many cases) and some less qualified late bloomer matriculants probably will make it through to get their degree.

By contrast, late bloomers have a nearly impossible task to get accepted at MIT or other engineering schools with more restrictive admissions policies.

Again, engineering is merely an example, it can happen in any field of study. Which approach a college takes at admissions is just a choice by the college, neither good nor bad, merely different. It is something for students to be aware of when applying to various colleges. [/quote]

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