<p>Firstly, just because everyone goes there does not mean that everyone graduates/ stays in their major. Many majors, especially the hard sciences, have fairly intense weeding which causes students to decide to pursue other, less demanding fields. </p>
<p>Secondly, who cares if everyone in NJ goes to Rutgers (they don’t btw)? One of the best schools for geology has infamously easy admissions standards, yet their geology professors are among the best in the world, undergraduate courses within the major are quite rigorous, and opportunities abound. Sure the school lets in many a 2.7 HS GPA slacker but that doesn’t mean that they can keep up with the work. By the time sophomore year rolls along most of the students left in the geology program are extremely hard workers. I suspect the same is true with Rutgers physics.</p>