a College Education

One good thing about a college education is that even if it seems worthless to your career, it was still hard work and you did the work and passed the requirements and nobody can take that away from you. You learn to sacrifice for a long term goal. By the way --- The flunk out numbers at University of Illinois were WAY WORSE than at USC today. 50% of my freshman class in Engineering never completed the work to get a degree. For forty years, the graduating senior class at University of Illinois was half the size of the freshman class. The other 50% were routinely and systematically "flunked out." For many of those boys, their lives were ruined and they are already dead. Some of my good friends flunked out years ago and never really recovered from the trauma. I was lucky to graduate I guess. The class size numbers are a matter of public record, so that can be verified.years 1945 - 1985


 I have several friends that remember being told in in advance in Freshman orientation in the College of Engineering to "look to your right and left --- half of those people will never graduate." They reported this to me after I back calculated the numbers to figure out the College of Engineering teaching strategy, which was : "It is easier to flunk out the stupid students that it is to actually teach them. The College will get better quality Engineering Graduates if we don't try to teach them all but just keep the real smart ones."

University of Illinois College of Engineering has no heart, no love, and no good intentions.  They destroyed more lives than they helped:  50% flunk out rate on unsuspecting students.  I survived.



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William Schaeffer