<p>Q: I have heard that some of the smaller, less popular/competitive colleges are very tough graders for the first two years to make it more difficult for their students to transfer out. Can anyone comment on this?</p>
<p>applemom, I’ve have heard of what you said, but I doubt its true.</p>
<p>OTOH, I’ve definitely heard of something called “weed-out” classes. These are very time intensive, heavy courseload intro-level classes that many first and second year students will encounter. They are called “weed-out” b/c they separate those truly interested in the major from those who are not.</p>
<p>The thing is, these intro-level courses(e.g. Chem I, Calc I, Bio I, English Comp., etc.) are the easiest to transfer to other colleges.</p>
<p>While these classes may be what your talking about(not sure), I dont think their intention is what you said, and I dont believe their difficulty is limited to smaller/less competitive schools.</p>
<p>Thanks, alipes07. I think I got that message from some of the very small colleges in Pennsylvania that we visited. They don’t want to admit a bunch of freshmen who end up leaving after two years.<br>
Anyone else?</p>