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Originally Posted by Da_Chief
It should be harder to begin the entrance requirements that is. That way you'll have smaller class sizes, competent students, and not a crazy work load.
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Going off on a tangent from the original topic here, but I don't think that would solve the problem actually, at least not to such an extent that increasing the toughness of first year would do.
A lot of the students that may not be exactly qualified to be engineers when they do get their degrees seem to be the ones who coast through high school with ease, got top marks, and never really learnt the merit of hard work and studying. Whereas you got the other end of the spectrum where the people may not be the brightest students in the class but they study, and study some more, and do their own work and don't cheat on tests and actually learn the stuff, and they will make much better engineers.
And then of course you got the extremely smart and hard working individuals who are, and should be, at the top of the class.