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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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?[/quote]

Reddit has random posts, so a noisy source of information (as is DCUM). Add salt to taste.

Many engineering programs definitely do NOT have intentional weed out classes.  Multiple examples have been given in other posts above.

Some other engineering programs DO have intentional weed out classes. Not all engineering programs are open about this approach. One really needs to dig into graduation rates for freshmen in the engineering college who graduate with a degree in engineering. Not all programs will make that information readily available to applicants.

Another less direct way of figuring it out is "how many juniors total are enrolled in engineering" (#J) compared with "how many freshmen start in engineering" (#F). If #J is a lot smaller than #F then likely there are weed out classes, whether they admit it or not. If #J slightly smaller than #F then the program might not have weed out classes. [/quote]

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