<p>Hi. I just wanted to ask if the engineering school has a weeding out policy like the bigger public schools. Thank you.</p>
<p>When I attended anyway, and I would assume this has not changed- the engineering college definitely did not have a weed-out policy.</p>
<p>You can find its graduation rates, they are published someplace, I recall seeing them.</p>
<p>The attrition rate in engineering may be higher than in some areas, because some people find out, as they get into the program, that they aren’t as interested in the profession as they thought they might be, or they get interested in something else outside of engineering. Also some people find that they just can’t hack the math, via the intro physics and math courses. But these intro courses are not weeders, they are at the level they have to be and really are not harder than some of the upper level courses that await people down the road if they stick with the program.</p>
<p>There is certainly no policy, and the retention rate is actually pretty good IIRC.</p>
<p>I think the issue with some public schools is, given their mandate they have to accept a certain proportion of weaker students who really can’t do the work. At those schools, such students are likely to be weeded out. At Cornell more likely they would not be accepted in the first place.</p>
<p>BTW, I just came across some recent data, the engineering college graduation rate is now highly impressive, to me anyway.</p>
<p>If I read all these charts right, the most recent 6-year rate of graduation from the university, for students who started in engineering, was up to 94%. Wow. Of these, looks like something like 90% stayed in engineering to the end. Wow. Of the 6% that did not graduate in 6 years, 2/3 were in good academic standing when they left. Some were still pursuing degrees at Cornell.</p>
<p>So no, the engineering school certainly has no weed-out policy, far from it.</p>