<p>I don’t get the comment against hiring ‘people with personalities’. Are you saying it’s better to rely more on grade points? They’ve done many studies showing no correlation between grade point and career success, probably because they didn’t take personality, good looks, ambition, etc. into consideration.</p>
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<p>This statement amazes me. Just another data point for you - Gen eds, for me, were an afterthought. I did take English classes where I had to spend time reading, so maybe there I spent the hour/credit hour/week but other classes were easy, easy. Tech classes were hard, hard, hard. An example: For every hour spent in physics lab (upper division classes) I spent at least 2 doing the lab report. Labs took up 4 hours/week ==> 8 hours per lab report per week. This was on top of the class hours, 3/week, which had monster problem sets that required lots more than 4.5 hours/week to do.</p>
<p>I think the amount of time one spends on engineering class work varies all over the place. Some people are excellent students and need the 1.5 hours/credit hour/week. Others will spend every waking hour doing work and still flunk out. Average is somewhere in between. For most “average” students, if they work hard they’ll be OK. If you’re not willing to work as hard as it takes to succeed then either be brilliant or find another major. JMO.</p>