Are public engineering grad schools easier to get admitted?

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<p>Are TOP public grad schools(purdue, GA tech, UIUC, UT Austin, UMICH,virginia tech, i'm excluding UC berkeley from this group) easier to get admitted for mechanical engineering compared to private/ivy(Cornell, stanford, princeton) league top engineering grad schools?</p>

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<p>Do not associate rankings with admission rates. Private schools usually have lower admission rates due to the number of seats available for admission. This does not really matter, you might get rejected by a school admitting 30% of applicants and get in a school admitting only less than 5%.</p>

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<p>Public universities might be easier because they need a lot of TAs for their large undergrad body. Another benefit is that some schools (but not all) will typically make a decision very quickly. I think VA Tech and GA Tech promise to respond within 6 weeks. If you get your act together by late September, you’ll hear back from these schools before the application deadlines for MIT, Stanford, etc.</p>

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<p>This is irrelevant in graduate school. Graduate programs can be very small (and thus competitive) in public universities (even if the university is large as a whole.) And you’re admitted to a program, not to the school.</p>

<p>The answer is basically no.</p>

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<p>Well they have larger departments thats for sure and that means they seem to accept a larger group of students. There is no correlation between acceptance rates and easiness. If you are not qualified you are gonna get dinged no matter what</p>

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<p>I am actually pretty sure that Purdue, GaTech and UT Austin are much easier to get into than Stanford, Princeton, and Caltech. But let’s face it, the latter schools are much more “prestigious” overall…</p>

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<p>yeah I don’t associate prestige with rankings. Princeton is ranked like 10 for ME, purdue, gatech are both ranked higher, but I still think of Princeton as being the more prestigious.</p>

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<p>The “ease” of getting in depends in part on the size of the program, the number of applicants, and the quality of the applicants, not whether a university is private or public. If a public university’s program is considered among the top in its field, it’s going to attract high qualified individuals vying for the few spots it has, making it much more competitive than a less popular program in a private university.</p>