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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? [/quote]

No.  It does not necessarily impact other students.

In my university, purely as an example, the Physics department had 3 separate sets of courses. One set was specifically for students in the College of Engineering. A second set was for non-Physics majors in the liberal arts College. The third set was specifically for Physics majors.

Also, please recall that there are some schools which are extremely STEM focused, as in they do not offer degrees in arts & letters. In theory at least, such a school might apply the weed-out approach to all students. [/quote]This is where I start to get confused. When looking at schools for my kid that were not direct admit, there is generally a requirement to take a certain number of credits or specific classes (such as calculus, physics, chemistry mentioned earlier) before applying to a major. In the schools that I researched (large public universities), these classes were taken by students across the university, not just engineering students. My point is that engineering students at these schools don't appear to be held to a different standard than other students.

I did a quick browse of reddit and found student mentioning weed out courses at engineering schools that are direct admit and considered not to be weed out schools, so maybe all engineering schools have weed out courses?
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