university funding / how do your universities work

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nah testing is p common for example in art schools, where you prove meeting basic requirements, and you can do that anytime you apply. it's like, you wanna seek a higher education in music, but you can barely tell a guitar from a lute, so go learn that before taking up something higher. i think it's reasonable to expect your first year students to have a grasp on the basic concepts that you're gonna use.

as for the 7 years thing i just threw the number out ther idk but there are good reasons for asking you to finish the course within a limited timeframe, if only because of the relevance of your studies - if you start studying medicine today, your basic lessons may not be applicable ten years down the line, for example. i guess the demands would be on a course-by-course basis? anthropology is much slower than engineering for example. and adapting it to the time you can dedicate to your course sounds fine. but it's good, i think, at least speaking for myself, to have a timeframe, setting goals and saying "ok this is what you must do to achieve x, and you need y ammount of time".