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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t believe any of you are actual engineers.[/quote]

I think they are disgruntled kids whose GPAs weren't what they wanted.

It is important to remember that half of all students are in the bottom half of the class.  They go on to good lives. Even the engineers.
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2.0-2.4 GPA is more like bottom 5% of the class, not bottom 50%.[/quote]
You are probably wrong wrt to large state engineering programs in the first three semesters. And the bottom five % is still in the bottom 50% :)[/quote]

Thanks for the support.  My point was more about the DCUM bias toward the overwhelming success - we aren't serving our kids well when our expectations are unreasonable. We know it isn't true that half of all engineering grads are total losers who can't find jobs, but we also know that half of them had grades below the median. we know this because math. No, my kid won't be hired by JPL, but she won't be at McD's either.

And yes, it is also true that the big state programs have lower GPAs than the privates and the [b]engineering programs at the LACs[/b].  My kid's Calc III class had a median grade of C.  Probably wouldn't happen at a private school.  And no, the kids don't learn less.  Calc is calc. They just face a different scale.

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Uhm, what Slacs Besides swarthmore have an engineering program? [/quote]

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