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I know how much you love your alma mater, Smithie, but your logic is somewhat nonsensical. If I were told that auto-admit partnerships had been terminated, my first reaction would be to wonder if a) Smith’s engineering department wasn’t grading hard enough and too many students were qualifying, or b) the auto-admit students weren’t measuring up to the usual standard. If there wasn’t a “problem” of some sort, why bother terminating the agreement? Pure speculation, but from my POV it seems to make more practical sense than your hypothesis.</p>
<p>I agree that Smith’s engineering program is quite renowned, but I doubt that ending auto-admit partnerships is beneficial for Smithie engineers.</p>