| But is it an actual cut system i.e. the freshman class is larger by purpose and design than the number of students which the school will retain for the sophomore class and at the end of the freshman year students are culled from the class to bring the size down to the actual numbers the school intended to keep in the first place. Many schools have evals or juries which must be passed. The latter gives a student a good degree of control over their destiny based on their commitment and work ethic. And very often, a jury or eval system has a remedial component to it so that a student is given an opportunity to bring their work up to expectations . The former takes all control out of a student's hands. No matter how hard the student works or how much progress the student has made, if your relative ranking falls below the arbitrary cut off number of students, you're gone. And given how subjective it all is, attending a school with an actual cut system is a very expensive roll of the dice. |