Return to tradition[1].

[1] https://www.ibm.com/history/punched-card

Medical schools don’t take in 18 year olds in North America. They can have more in depth entrance exams since the people come in are more mature.

> This is the reason GenZ

Or perhaps it may be the misinformation and rhetoric being used to inflame tried and true anti-intellectual sentiments.

Yep. Related, but the software engineering industry did actually have (for a brief time) a PE Exam but it was sadly discontinued.

https://ncees.org/ncees-discontinuing-pe-software-engineerin...

There's still a PE Electrical and Computer: Computer Engineering one but its definitely more focused on hardware.

https://ncees.org/exams/pe-exam/electrical-and-computer

This Canadian university run high school coding contest isn't part of an American college degree. In fact it has no relation to any of that description. It isn't American. It isn't relating to a college at all by the Canadian understanding of that word (we distinguish between college and university, and Waterloo is the latter). It isn't for university (or college) students or related to a university (or college) degree.

> Look at medical schools, we're not pumping out chatgpt doctors because we have actual in-person test proctoring that includes checking biometrics, taking photographs of the individual for posterity, oral examinations, etc.

Extracurricular contests for high school students do not have the same funding or standards as medical exams to become a doctor for obvious reasons (in Canada, where I participated in these, but presumably anywhere).

I have done this competition (I think) and what your suggesting just is not reasonable. This is a distributed competition administered locally on a volunteer basis. This isn't some formalized test & trying to get Waterloo to pay for all the local proctors would result in this competition shutting down which would be net not good. I don't have insight into how the competition has changed in the 20 years since I took it so I don't know why they don't have local proctors or lost faith in them. Maybe COVID-era adaptations?

Honestly, I think the better solution is to adjust the difficulty to be AI-proof but it may be hard to do so at this level of academia.

"could have", yes, but mostly didn't until LLMs showed up.

The problem is that LLMs lower the bar to cheating: using Stack Overflow still requires a pretty solid knowledge of the domain (and in a professional coding context, usually wouldn't even count as cheating). The LLMs also let you do this much faster.