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<p>To be fair, that is a sampling from one school and shouldn’t stand on it’s own to discredit the whole “engineers have low gpas because it’s hard” stigma. </p>
<p>I’ve also found that, atleast at my school, engineering departments have higher expectations GPA-wise than many other departments do for their students to maintain their classification of their respective major. This meaning that, for example, a 2.0 or 2.5 student can be classified as a “liberal arts” major in upper level classes, while this same student would eventually be dropped from the engineering department. This tendency, amongst others, can also lead to a skewing of the average GPA per department statistics.</p>