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Originally Posted by blankall
It would make more sense to have a sink or swim system in the first 2 years of university. A lot of programs already use this method. Let in all the decent high school students. Then just make the first 1-2 years of university really challenging and cut the ones that don't hack it.
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Yeah, I like that concept, Enginering used to fail 1/3rd of its first years fairly consistently. one low cost year with large class sizes and hard curves and limited spots in the 2nd year program.
I wonder though if you would just move the bottleneck with an approach like that. Would you get people trying multiple times to make the cut and the same 97% grade inflation problem existing? At least they would be competing in the same classes for spots as opposed to the high school system.