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sakky, I believe that the students that MIT accepts, on a a whole are capable of graduating in their chosen fields of interest.
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But some are not capable. That's the point. What happens to those people?
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But if it is the field that they truly want, most students of the caliber that MIT accepts, can rise to the occasion and pass and graduate.
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The majority probably can.
But not all. That's my point.
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I know my kids would not change majors as an easier path toward graduating. They just would not. They are too interested in their fields.
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I would argue that's because they never truly had to face the 'barrel of the gun', if you will. Look, it's very easy to say that you wouldn't do this-and-that if faced with a terrible choice. But actually following through is an entirely different matter.
I don't speak out of inexperience. I know quite a few people who flunked out of college or came close to it (i.e. landed on academic probation). Believe me, when placed under that kind of crisis, people's desires change quickly.
And besides, I think this topic is endogenous anyway. After all, let's be honest, people's interests in topics tend to be affected by how well they are performing. If you're constantly getting failing grades in that topic and having everybody constantly telling you that you're doing poorly and always being made to feel dumb, then you're almost certainly going to lose interest in that topic and want to study something else.