Not really. This is needlessly cynical. The transition to college is a big one for many students, with a whole lot of "it depends". At a hard school, students a

Not really. This is needlessly cynical. The transition to college is a big one for many students, with a whole lot of "it depends". At a hard school, students are put in a situation where they might have to manage time and learn to study for the first time, and many learn some very hard lessons along that path. MIT has had first years go pass/no record for decades for exactly this reason. And I see the exact same pattern in my undergrads at CMU. (And yes, we really do care about our students adapting, at least at the faculty level. We're educators, for crying out loud. You don't think we take the industry pay cut because we feel guilty about earning money, do you?)