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Originally Posted by RichieRich
Maybe 20-30yrs ago you could "blunder through an engineering degree" (well, you still needed SOME smarts), but certainly not now IMO. Not with the entrance requirements being over 90% average plus solid Math/Science requirements. Back in the late 80's I remember your grade 12 high school average could be about 20% lower and still get in.
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Guaranteed admission was something like 85% when I was a student. 86%? Somewhere in that neighbourhood. Anyway, not important.
I don't think the bigger obstacle is it's harder to get in nowadays, I think the bigger obstacle is the cost.
30 years ago a B.Sc. in engineering cost about $9k in tuition. 20 years ago it cost about $22k. Now it's about $40k. Plus everything else—room and board, etc.—costs a ####load more.
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Of course over 1/3 dropped out first semester, and probably another 1/4-1/3 within a year after that.
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Anecdotally I remember it being about half either dropped out or flunked out by the beginning of second year, and... yeah, another 1/3ish by the beginning of third year.
They were probably the smart ones.