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Originally Posted by MechEng83

Things you can do to try to reduce the number of students who are there "just to hang out" is have a time requirement, grade requirement, selective application process, team fee, or something else that will only keep the interested students. I recommend using these things with caution, because someone has to manage the "who passes the bar" process and you can't always define the "best" FRC students through those means.

Be even more careful of this because, team productivity aside, it's liable to exclude those students who can potentially benefit the most from FRC.

I've always been extremely wary of minimum-grade requirements for extracurriculars, since as far as I can tell their primary function is to create awful feedback loops for disadvantaged students.