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A good measure of the standards in different academic subjects. Chance of earning a SYCGPA (second-year cumulative GPA) of 3.0 or more for someone with a HSGPA (high school GPA) of 3.7 and a SAT of 1200. The list accords with what everyone suspects.

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Similar ranking to % female

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Source: Using SAT Scores to Inform Academic Major-Related Decisions and Planning on Campus research.collegeboard.org/pdf/using-sat- pdf

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This is why I get mildly irritated at the industry act of calling software developers "Engineers".. I don't think you are risking fines and jail time if your app crashes... Actual Engineers risk that.

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Sep 7

Is that always true? I can believe that’s true of, say, a supervising structural engineer on a building. But I’m having a hard time believing that individual automotive engineers at a car co. bear liability if a malfunction causes an accident, unless negligence can be proven.

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Any idea of why universities are fine with that? As a former political science student, I've always found those low standards very annoying

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Sep 6

Universities are beholden to the consumer: the student. There's been consistent grade inflation for decades. In the 60s, getting a C in a class meant you passed, and that was *good*.

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Just plugging for everyone to note the distinction (as you did) between the standards and the subjects themselves

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in other news, the rate of native english speakers as advanced education instructors directly corresponds with higher academic achievement of native english speaking students.

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Subjectively true. Started in engineering (cybernetics), cont'd with econ: no comparison regarding workload/challenge. Math part was ridiculous.

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Interesting how much lower engineering is than the others... I guess they really DON'T want bridges falling down.

Oscar Emerson

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Sep 6

There's just an enormous amount to learn. I remember the university bringing in a policy that students couldn't do more that 50 credits a semester. So the Eng. department lowered all their undergrad courses to 7 credits. Many of the courses are *intense*.

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Do a lot of people major in physics or engineering (or are they allowed to do so) with a 1200SAT?

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Sep 6

I think that is well below average

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Journalists are just smarter

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There was a reason engineering was often referred to as “pre-business”. By year two, half my classmates were gone.

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Interesting to see the winner

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Wow! Engineering on top of the list above physical science!

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I was definitely in the 61% of engineering students.

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My high school GPA (codetermined based on an academic and a behavior grade) was 0.7

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That might explain the excessive confidence of journalists.

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They gotta make it harder for teachers. Too many idiot teachers. Of course engineering doesn’t far well here, should have at least 1300s to even try engineering

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"Health professions" being 3rd-easiest, ahead of even business and social sciences - that explains the last 19 months perfectly. As does math&statistics, by the way.

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