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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He was used to Princeton students and failed to adjust down for a lower-achieving cohort. Pretty straightforward.[/quote]

Profs are ordered to fail read “weed out” a certain amount of students because the universities don’t want to spend big money adding capacity to highly expensive STEM depts. They want to force XX% of each freshmen class to high margin soft departments. It’s a big racket and has literally nothing to do with the students being equipped to handle medical school.[/quote]

Actually, I never found this to be true. The students just usually aren't up to the material and these are classes they need to get through for STEM, which is by nature, hard.

This professor didn't understand he was going to be tecahing in a much easier environment in retirement and was not familiar with being left go, in order to appease the tuition payers. The younger, non retired faculty know they better score well on the student surveys or they are out. [/quote]

When I pay high tuition for my kids, I would want them to be challenged by difficult problems that will push them, advance their analytical ability and expand their perspective. I want these professors to test their students’ limits and push their boundary. If these professors don’t do this and just try to make it easy for students, why would I send them to top school? They might as well learn it from YouTube lectures (which is quite good for just learning materials). I suggest these NYU students to take khan academy organic chemistry instead[/quote]

You’re fine with your kids being challenged until they earn a C or below. Then you would lose your shit. [/quote]

+100. The parents are the ones calling the Dean, and then the Dean pressures the prof to make everything easier. Most STEM profs I know say this same thing.

Tuition is so high now that the expectation is, if you pay it, you get the grades necessary for med school, etc. To pay that much and then be weeded out is unacceptable.[/quote]

+1.  I hate this trend, but it’s not *crazy* to expect good customer service from an institution that is charging you 60k per year or whatever it is now.  For that kind of money, [b]people are going to expect results[/b].  They aren’t entirely wrong to do so IMO.[/quote]

What if the truth is some kids just can’t handle difficult subjects like organic chemistry or engineering, and careers  in medicine and engineering are not good fit for them? Many parents believe that their kids have special talents or are genius, but the reality is most kids are not.[/quote]

Agree!  Many if these kids cheated their way through high school so they are unprepared and not actually of the level they appear to be.  Their parents are either clueless or turn a blind eye as long as they have the perfect GPA.  The kids (and the parents) feel entitled to As.  It’s insane.[/quote]

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