<p>Even if we concede that truly innovative engineers are not lost, and only non all-star engineers are lost, do you think the potentially lost non-all-star engineers would better serve society as engineers or in other fields?</p>
<p>And if you look at the article, it’s not like we’re talking bout dumb kids. One of the students at Notre Dame who left engineering had an 800 on math SAT, in 700s on english, and had taken multiple AP’s including BC calc. Obviously that’s only n=1, but I’m sure that at least a few other lost engineers are of his calibre. </p>
<p>I’ll also concede that engineers lost to finance probably represents a bigger loss of talent.</p>