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[quote=Anonymous]People tend to talk about weed-out courses in conjunction with programs that require a secondary application to an engineering major. Sometimes majors are space limited or at capacity and the school adds a GPA requirement or even requires an application to be admitted to a space-limited major.

The problem I have with the weed-out argument as applied to an engineering pre-major is that the weed-out courses are taught by other departments for the most part. Generally, a first-year engineering student will take Calc 1 and 2, physics, chemistry, English, and an intro to engineering course. Only the engineering course will be taught by the engineering department, with the rest taught by their respective departments and required by many other majors. It seems a stretch to me that classes required and taught by other departments would be intentionally difficult for engineering students. Wouldn't that adversely impact other students as well?

I don't think that there are weed-out courses. What I think is that some of these courses are difficult and some kids are not prepared. [/quote]

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