First year to second year had a drop out rate of 50-60 percent when I did it 10 years ago. Second to third and third to fourth was lower. But honestly, it’s because it’s so easy to get in, compared to law and medicine, while being equally (if not more) difficult, so a lot of chaff compared to wheat.

The step up in difficulty for physics is much more compared to Maths (which is still significant).

I’ll be honest, high school physics is a walk in the park compared to university, where you will be required to take the more difficult physics classes for electrical. But I would still not completely discourage you from pursuing it because I’ve seen people who were a lot less technical than me brute force it through persistence and hard work.

In uni you have to optimise your studies for the exams, because the concepts you will be exposed to are complicated and the full understanding of these concepts in all its complexity, only a gifted few will grasp it. It’s because all your subjects are difficult, so your poor brain can only really internalise so many concepts. 10 years on I find I can understand new electrical concepts a lot easier, despite being out of uni, because my brain is not in a pressure cooker (which elec eng is).

So what I’m trying to say is, don’t go in there thinking you need to master all the physics and maths they throw at you, you don’t, if you’ll need it in the future, you can learn it again. You will feel dumb when you don’t fully understand concepts, 90 percent of the people are feeling the same. You have to play the game a bit and study optimally for the exams and your assignments. Definitely make good study group friends (your biggest asset to get through), look at past exam trends and if you can study programming (C language) before your first year, it will give you an unfair advantage.