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Re:Ask YC: Why the degree? by schtog on Saturday May 24, 2008 @09:01PM (#199233)
"It also proves that you are not completely dumb, since few people fail at university."

doesnt add up, what exactly do you mean?

Re:Ask YC: Why the degree? by bluelu on Saturday May 24, 2008 @10:48PM (#199291)
Sorry.I thought that many people fail at university, so you prove that you are somehow more capable of learning. Few was not well chosen.

However, I observed in recent years (at least here in Switzerland and also other people told me about it) that it seems to get easier and easier to pass university, as there is more and more pressure from the state (which finances university) to let more and more people pass, due to the lack of engineers.