Adding my own personal story as an anecdote - I never completed my bachelor's (double major in physics and CS). I did okay on my physics classes, great on my CS

Adding my own personal story as an anecdote - I never completed my bachelor's (double major in physics and CS). I did okay on my physics classes, great on my CS classes (often in the top 2%), yet failed badly on a couple of advanced calculus classes. It got to the point where I was done with most of the requirement and elective classes on the CS and physics side, was already taking graduate courses in CS and lecturing in a course I helped create in CS - yet failed out of my bachelor's. In the end, the industry offers for me to go all into tech got too good, and I managed to advance to middle management with no need for that degree, so I never went back to finish it. I still think academics are important and I am thankful for the stuff I learned there, but I think the fact calculus and "hard maths" are such a strong focal point early on serves no purpose other than serving as an arbitrary filter for most people.