<p>I think if you have any "F"s on your transcript, you still have a horrible GPA and an admissions person at a 4 year college will throw you in the reject pile, unless they have personal knowledge that you can work like a dog and still fail an engineering core. </p>
<p>Maybe, the model should be hard classes that are manageable by smart hardworking students, rather than chew you up and spit you out. Now, it is not such a surprise to me why there is a shortage of engineering graduates in this country. HMC is not the only engineer school with the chew them up model; many are worse from what my engineering friends tell me now. Too bad, they did not tell me 6 months ago.</p>