"Freshmen in college wade through a blizzard of calculus, physics and chemistry in lecture halls with hundreds of other students. And then many wash out.
Studies have found that roughly 40 percent of students planning engineering and science majors end up switching to other subjects or failing to get any degree. That increases to as much as 60 percent when pre-medical students, who typically have the strongest SAT scores and high school science preparation, are included, according to new data from the University of California at Los Angeles. That is twice the combined attrition rate of all other majors. "
[NY Times]
Nothing new here ! This was true 50 years ago when clipper spent six years getting an Engineering degree in what was then a five year course. Engineering students back then saw classmates drop out of Engineering to go into History, Education, and other "Liberal Arts", simply because Engineering was "too hard". As high achiever high school grads (yes - we had grade inflation even in high school back then), they did not like becoming a C-average student in Engineering! Why not go major in Art History and graduate Summa cum-Laude?
[clipper]
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