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by Dave K on 12:09 PM September 30th, 2005 EST (#1)
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I went to a highly ranked Engineering school... and the article was pretty accurate. These schools are tough, with a heavy courseload that tends to be highly theory driven. They don't hold your hand, they throw you in to sink or swim. They also have courses that are called the "weed out" classes, they're made VERY difficult specifically to reduce the class size. Typically engineering schools will have a fallback major... in my school, the Electrical Engineering students who couldn't cut it fell back to Industrial Distribution.
Personally I don't have a problem with this, and I don't see it as causing a reduction in the number of men in college. They've been the same for decades, maybe centuries, and people have managed to get through them. I think the problem these days is grade and high schools aren't even giving bright kids the basic tools needed to survive the critical first year in an engineering school. That's why you see a lot of transfer programs where students spend a year catching up at a community college before they even start their 4 years at university. A lot of kids need it these days, because the rules are simple once you're in... survival of the fittest. If you want to get an undergrad degree from a top Engineering school you'd best be prepared for a lot of pain, because engineering degrees are the most challenging undergrad degrees... period. Pre-med is easier, and pre-law is a joke in comparison. It gets better in grad school, but the BS Engineering degree is tough.
Dave K - A Radical Moderate
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