It may a virtue or a fault with the Singaporean system that we can be so lenient with some of our kids but so brutal to others. This week we are treated to an article that talks about the shifting fortunes of the A-level intake for different local university faculties ( link ). While Law and Medicine kept the minimum straight-A requirement, the newest top faculties include not just Computer Science, but also Data Analytics and Food Technology. As some faculties got elevated, others fell. Accounting is a particularly prominent victim of this shifting of fortunes with the cut-off being straight-Bs. What erks me is not the change of fortunes, as I've witnessed Engineering move from star faculty to the proverbial garbage dump, but the reaction of the faculty when they start getting more ordinary students. If you read closely the comments of the Accounting professor, I came off with the impression that admitting straight B...