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Re:To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics by jerf on Thursday February 02, 2017 @04:23PM (#13554783)
If what you describe was even remotely the case, which I don't know, then there was some other filter in place preventing "everybody" from doing it. I can tell, because not "everybody" did.

Plus I suspect you missed my "regardless of how well they do it" clause. I doubt that you can flunk every math class over and over and just keep attending. Loopholes that big get noticed, exploited, and closed very quickly.

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Re:To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics by FabHK on Thursday February 02, 2017 @04:46PM (#13555010)
In German universities in the 80's and 90's you had people studying for decades. It wasn't a "loophole", either, it was a feature. Universities were there to teach, basically everyone could go and study.

In recent times, the pressure to finish or drop out has increased, and studies have become more rigorously structured (or infantilised...), particularly with the introduction of the Bachelor/Master system.

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Re:To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics by robotresearcher on Thursday February 02, 2017 @05:56PM (#13555766)
There was a very strong filter. It used to be very difficult to get into university before they expanded tremendously from the 70s to now. You needed excellent grades. Now good grades are enough to get a spot somewhere.
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