<p>“…I am POSITIVE that I do NOT want to be a practicing engineer.”</p>
<p>Then, IMO, don’t apply to the engineering school.</p>
<p>If you enroll there, you will wind up having to take a good number of courses you have no passion for, or use for later on in life. I personally regret the time I spent learning, and in my case practicing, engineering, and looking back that segment of my life was a bunch of wasted time. Not that there was anything wrong with it, but because it was never my passion, and consequently and predictably it has long been thrown by the wayside.</p>
<p>You only get to go through undergrad once, don’t squander it taking courses that you know from the outset hold little to no current or future utility to you.</p>
<p>People who might well want to become engineers, but aren’t really positive about it, have to agonize about decisions of this type, but for you the answer seems clear.</p>
<p>You can not just simply rank which college is easier to get into generally; there are only easier ones for YOU. Do your grades/EC’s show a broad passion for the liberal arts, or are they primarily math/science oriented? Don’t analyze admissions rates or anecdotal evidence because they really don’t tell you much. Just think-if you were an admissions officer at both colleges, would they be inclined to accept you based on the competitive pool and (perhaps just as important) how well you fit?</p>
<p>guys, you have to stop trying to worm your way to cornell by applying
to a certain college in cornell.</p>
<p>apply to the place you want to go to, write an essay that shows your interest, and be done with it.</p>
<p>my friend applied to cornell, CALS, purely b/c it statistically had the highest acceptance rate, and wrote an essay about neurology saying that "it is not specifically a course in CALS, but the college will help explore my interests)</p>
<p>well guess what. she was rejected, straight out.
she had a 2400 on her sat’s btw.</p>