<p>You might want to add some in the match range. Also, why engineering? Honestly almost every engineer I know at the top 10 or so schools ends up switching to business because they realize engineering is somewhat a commodity whereas in business its easier to rise to a much higher salary and a far greater decsion-making role.</p>
<p>i'll probably end up top 20%?
I'm genuinely looking into engineering, i'm not sure i understand your question?</p>
<p>eh...I'm not sure top 20% will really cut it for HYPMS, even with your URM status 20% is gonna hurt you when most applicants are top 10% of their class</p>
<p>true true, but i really have no clue where exactly I'll end up...
...but this year ~6 ppl got into Harvard, their ranks were: 1,2,4,7, 5 got waitlisted, and 36 got in..[he was african american]...so...</p>
<p>The decision of major is a very individual one. Engineering is not a commodity and is a perfectly valid major to pursue with high reward potentials. IMO, a significant number of the people who switch out of engineering simply couldn't or wouldn't handle the amount of work and difficulty of the higher math, science, physics, and other difficult courses required for engineering. Engineering is one of the more difficult majors for most people and not as easy as many others (such as business, history, communications, etc.) but this shouldn't discourage those who are genuinely interested in it. </p>
<p>ana: Make sure you add some reasonable match and safety engineering schools (based on your stats) to your list. Many of the top engineering schools aren't Ivies.</p>
<p>I sort of disagree. Most engineers I know aged 26-30 are making around 75K tops while most of my business friends around that age all make 100K+, some of them are approaching near the 200K range. The engineers I know who have been able to do very well have translated their skills into a business function. I have a bunch of friends who majored in engineering at top 10 schools (like Cornell, Pton, Duke, Columbia, etc). It seems like almost all of them ended up in business. Then again, money isn't everything.</p>
<p>oh yeah, of course I'm applying to my safeties and the such, but there's no need to discuss that here</p>
<p>At least in the CS field (which I know well), there are plenty of engineering BS grads that start out at $50-70K so they should be making considerably more than $75K by the time they're 30. There are also plenty of business grads making less than this - engineers typically start out at a higher salary than most other majors. Of course, business grads, especially with Masters degrees from Harvard, Yale, etc. will likely earn more but they're atypical since the vast majority of college grads don't go to HYPS.. . </p>
<p>You're right though - money isn't everything (but it sure comes in handy).</p>