>In my programming 101 70% of students did not even attend the final. Then, next programming class was a better with high percentage of students passing. Eventu

>In my programming 101 70% of students did not even attend the final. Then, next programming class was a better with high percentage of students passing. Eventually, when we got to class like theory of computation 80% of people failed to finish. I'm kind of astounded that your program was so badly calibrated that first 70% of freshman dropped the major rather than take the final exam, and then, several years of curriculum later, the 300 or 400-level theory class still fails 80% of its students. What the hell? But I suppose by my own definition, that's basically what we should expect from using weeder courses to stop people majoring in a field for money. Still, at least at my undergrad institution, once you got past the weeder courses, a fail or drop rate of 80% would be considered pretty bad.