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I know what you mean when you say people are failing it left and right. All my tech teachers discuss their peers always failing, and not being able to do anything about it, or even my favorite, when one of my teachers said she made money by teaching a class to other students right before the exam with an admission fee. High school technology classes (at least in my school) tend to be extremely easy and not fatiguing at all. I remember not studying for my last years final and getting in the mid nineties. I dont think its a good thing either. I'm afraid that when i go to my college, I'm not going to know all that i should.

Im shooting for Worcester Polytech right now, in central Mass. The nice thing about it is that it is really hands on and works on the time constraints of prototyping more than anything, one of the reasons ive been getting really x-core with CAD lately. They are known for not having a lot of exams as well. Team projects makes t harder to push yourself above others. One of the coolest thing about it though is that their "final project" (they call it the "capstone project") is where you are assessed on a design problem, and ave to have a working prototype by the end of 48 hours. I find these parts of their cirriculum, along with their professors, a good oppening into a career. Especially with rising competition in the field in the last few decades.