It's been used for exactly that purpose at one particular university I'm highly familiar with. Certain departments (e.g. Psychology) didn't want to deal with th

It's been used for exactly that purpose at one particular university I'm highly familiar with. Certain departments (e.g. Psychology) didn't want to deal with the hassle of flunking their students out, so they outsourced the job to us (math) by requiring calc 1.