The programs where “weed out” may be a reasonable description would be those which have more than nominal secondary admission requirements or competitive secondary admission, or those where progression requires a college GPA substantially higher than 2.0. In such programs, the popular engineering majors tend to be the most difficult to get into in secondary admission (or meet the progression GPA), though students “weeded out” of such majors may still be admitted to less popular engineering majors.
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