Why do people say that Engineering major is a "GPA killer"?

[aegrisomnia]

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Yep, a 3.0 in industrial or civil engineering is equivalent to a 3.3 in math and physics.

Give me a break. Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.</p>

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Surely plenty of students in the first two years of humanities or social science majors are lazy or unprepared.

When did we start talking about humanities and social science majors? On an unrelated note, how are they unprepared for the challenges of the major if they aren’t being weeded out? Doesn’t that mean that they are indeed prepared for the challenges of those majors? Maybe they just have a more realistic appraisal of their interests or abilities… not the worst character trait to have. </p>

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But you’re not really taught original thinking and creativity in most engineering courses.

Huh. I know this isn’t true for the most part in ST-M curricula… if it is true in engineering, maybe educators need to rethink how they approach engineering pedagogy.</p>

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Then you know, for most of us with decent IQ, it is trivial to skate by in most liberal arts classes, even during our first 2 years in college.

Sounds like a problem with your school (indeed, maybe with most or all schools; just pointing out this isn’t a fundamental rule, and that you could make these classes arbitrarily tough). Maybe liberal arts programs have watered down curricula because they get a lot of cocky, dumb engineers who refuse to think hard and insist on skating by with good grades?</p>

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Most science classes demand precision in our work results, often with an exact right or wrong answer. Conversely, for most humanities classes, results are subjective and can be argued.

Clearly that doesn’t make one harder than the other. Counterexamples available upon request.</p>