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<p>In countries where one’s admission is determined by one’s prior chosen subjects for HS specialization/school leaving exam and scores attained from them, I’d doubt that based on what I’ve heard from engineering/CS from those societies. First, the math requirements wouldn’t be onerous due to the admissions process which admits strong math students and second, doing so…especially in front of one’s fellow engineering/CS peers wouldn’t be done as it will result in loss of peer respect. </p>
<p>Especially when their thoughts of the complainer of math requirements is likely to be more along the lines of “WTH did you expect when you decided to choose the HS specialization/school leaving exam to emphasize engineering/CS related subjects and become an engineering/CS major?” along with eyerolls or their cultural equivalents. </p>
<p>Got to observe a bit of this in my STEM-centered public magnet between recent immigrant classmates coming from countries with much more stronger and advanced math curricula and the complainers who were almost always native-born Americans or immigrants who came from comparable/worse educational systems and/or those who left their home countries before they were of school age. </p>