Several people on this forum have reported being admitted to science and technology exploration program when they applied to engineering.
The newly release data from college of engineering shows the difference between the profiles of engineering admits vs. general university admits.
Please go to page 43:
https://engineering.osu.edu/sites/engineering.osu.edu/files/uploads/uess2015.pdf
Quick summary:
For fall 2015 class, average ACT score of enrollees university-wide was 28.9, for engineering it was 30.4
fraction of enrollees in top 10% of their HS class was 62% university-wide, for engineering, it was nearly 69%
fraction of enrollees in top 25% of their HS class was 95% university-wide, engineering: 98.2%