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Anonymous wrote:Harsh public university curves are to weed out a predetermined xx% of freshmen because they don't have the seats, faculty, or department funding for all of them. They want to funnel xx% of them to soft departments, which are far cheaper for the university, thus higher margins. It's all about the bottom line and it's all pretty disgusting. Especially because a lot of international students are ruthless cheaters and utilize test banks and other cheating methods to dominate the top of these courses. I know pre-meds and nurses who transferred colleges after doing too "poorly" on first year weed-out courses and successfully became nurses and MDs.

US kids cheat like crazy too.

Anonymous wrote:I think colleges want to weed kids out Freshman year so that a floundering student will waste one year instead of four years.

I suspect this is why a friend had the dissection class in Med school her freshman year, so that the squeamish kids would waste one year, not four years.