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[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]

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]

I went to one of those schools and there were foundational classes for certain majors that we referred to as weed out classes. That said, it wasn't so much that the people that changed majors couldn't do the work. More that if you're not into a course that needs to become a core competency for the major, it's time to reassess. Also, I think professors in some of those classes wanted to give students a "this isn't high school anymore' reality check.[/quote]

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