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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not all engineering programs have intentional weed-out classes. Programs with high (maybe 90+%) 5-yr graduation rates in engineering of the students who started in engineering likely don't have intentional weed-out classes. [/quote]

The better schools absolutely have intentional weed-out classes.  [/quote]

40% of Stanford is on disability. What say u?

Or maybe the material is just tough.

Why would they intentionally want kids to drop out? 
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The very top Engineering schools don't (Top 5). They figure if you got in there you are smart enough.  [b]Weed out not necessary.[/b][/quote]

Correct. 
Look at Ivies with true engineering programs as well as MIT, CMU, UCB, JHU, Stanford, maybe couple others: the retention rate from freshmen in the E school to sophomores is over 95%. Thus there is no weedout, however these colleges do the weeding as part of admission. When you only let in 1500+ with mostly 5s on Stem APs, you can be successful in engineering. [/quote][/quote]

true! those lucky enough to get in are set[/quote]

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