<p>Yes norcalguy, engineering majors and hard science majors are a disproportionally large fraction of the student body at Cornell. 19% of Cornell’s student body are engineers, highest in the Ivy League ahead of Columbia (18%) and Princeton (17%). After Princeton, no other Ivy is more than 9% engineers. At Cornell the next three largest majors, each representing about 10-12% of the student body, are the biological sciences (most pre-meds), business, and the agriculture sciences (some pre-meds, some chemistry majors). In contrast to Cornell (where almost 40% of the class is in the hard sciences or engineering), each of the other Ivy’s has 30%-45% of its class in the social sciences and/or humanities. League wide the three most popular majors are economics, political science, and psychology. The most popular majors at Cornell are the engineering majors.</p>
<p>Edit: These numbers are likely somewhat out dated as the are all taken from the 2002-2005 period. Also, its worth noting that since Cornell has so many majors, and so many specialty majors not offered at other Ivys, there is no one major with a huge percentage of students. This likely distorts the analysis somewhat.</p>