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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think there are intentional “weed out” classes. I do think a lot of majors in colleges put a prerequisite earlier in the program, so that a student who is not cut out for a major gets a sense of what is entailed early enough – so they can choose another major and still graduate on time. There were classes in my kid’s computer science program that were required to take his second semester - before officially declaring CS. Quite a few kids bailed after those classes because they realized that it Would probably become evenmore difficult for them to succeed after that.[/quote] Having attended an engineering school with weed out classes, they were absolutely intentional. They didn't want students struggling in the harder upper level classes so "weeded" those with weaker skills before they got too far into the major. Those students would pivot and do great in an easier major.[/quote]
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