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Are you saying college courses don't get watered to to where nearly everybody passes? College (upenn for me) was trivially easy to pass. They need that sweet, s

• gowld 9y ago
  No they don't. They need those sweet grants and donations, and butts in seats justifies their presence.
  • deadmetheny 9y ago
    If all those butts in seats flunk out of classes, who's going to be giving them grants and donations? A record of failure isn't going to help any grant proposals.
• smt88 9y ago
  My highly-ranked school was also trivially easy. I still learned a lot and was forced out of my intellectual comfort zone on many occasions. "Easy" hurts the goal of credentialing, but it doesn't really mean the education is poor. I also wasn't a STEM major. I know many STEM grads who had a hellish time getting good grades.
• com2kid 9y ago
  Some classes were easy, some weren't. I enjoyed my history classes, the professor was amazing. All the tests were essay style, failing was hard, the only requirement was being able to demonstrate an understanding of the course material and being able to put together a well reasoned argument about different historical events. Often times we would be asked to explain our understanding of some major player's reasoning. Was the course "hard" in terms of drop out rate? No. Was it rigorous and thorough? That it was.