I think some degree of "weeding out" is required. Just because you got into Fancy University College it doesn't mean you are automatically great at all academic

I think some degree of "weeding out" is required. Just because you got into Fancy University College it doesn't mean you are automatically great at all academic endeavors. If you sail through Math 101 and 102, and run into a brick wall in Math 202, maybe you aren't as great at math as you think you are. Or maybe you need to work harder. We tend to think of higher education as some sort of inalienable right to all peoples across the world, but it just isn't. Everybody has a ceiling. Higher education, and especially elite universities, should be for those whose ceiling is higher than the average bear. That said, until you get into the later years of higher education, "weeding out" doesn't have hard and fast boundaries. Atypical thinkers may have a blind spot that needs a different teaching method, or possibly "departmental policy" is just garbage ideas ossified into departmental culture. It's always worth revisiting those Chesterton Fences to see if they need to be altered or moved, or even torn down.