Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:13:07 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "Sean Kelly" <s...@invisibleduck.org> wrote in message > news:hhetss$26e...@digitalmars.com... >> >> Intro courses in the sciences are often intended to weed out the people > > There's a *lot* of things wrong with the way schools work. Deliberate > "weeding out" is a clear red flag that a school cares more about their > own statistics (graduation ratio, etc)
In fact many schools have made the courses much easier nowadays to get better statistics. The graduation ratio doesn't matter that much if it's a public school - they get funding based on the amount of people who have graduated. I think this model is much more common in Europe, at least.
