<p>Is this a fact or myth?</p>
<p>First time I heard this one</p>
<p>the BEST engineering school in ivy league you mean</p>
<p>If I say yes, does that mean you won’t apply?</p>
<p>If so, hell yes.</p>
<p>threads with these subjects are such a waste of time…</p>
<p>Myth
cal p, mit, stanford, ucb top e schools
cornell best ivy</p>
<p>but brandnew is right</p>
<p>neither. this isn’t a fact nor a myth</p>
<p>i would suggest u to check the USnews ranking for engineering schools, and you’ll see that Cornell is the ivy with the best so far.</p>
<p>cornell is definitely not the easiest, i know people who get into upenn engineer and columbia engineer but not cornell. besides, since its the best in the ivys, it can’t also be the easiest</p>
<p>Cornell engineering’s high acceptance rate is deceptive. A closer look would reveal that the College of Engineering also has the highest average stats. Fields like engineering are very self-selective. Engineering is known to be difficult; those who apply already tend to be the cream of their crop. Cornell engineering happens to be one of the best programs in the country, widely regarded as superior, even to programs at schools like Harvard and Columbia, which are more selective. </p>
<p>So it is always helpful to look at a wide range of factors instead of basing your judgments on just one statistic. This doesn’t apply just to Cornell engineering, but other things in life as well. (But I agree, these threads are generally useless.)</p>
<p>Don’t know about easiest, but the consensus is that its the best of the ivies.</p>
<p>Sorry for bringing this back up, but I’d like to know if there’s an answer to this question.</p>
<p>I’ve also consistently heard that Cornell engineering is the best among the ivies. I also realize that it’s “high” acceptance rate is deceptive because of the self-selective nature of engineering, but then why is it higher compared to another school such as Columbia seas? Is it just a result of the fact that the 2 schools appeal to 2 different groups of people within engineering, or maybe one is easier to get into than the other?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>People who are sure they want to go into engineering don’t generally even consider Columbia SEAS.</p>
<p>Cornell gets a lot more applicants, and has a large freshmen class, therefore it has a larger acceptance rate.</p>
<p>Last time I checked, average SAT scores were nearly identical between CoE and SEAS. Not that SAT scores are the best indicator of selectivity, but I think based on this it would be reasonable to guess that the two have similar student bodies. </p>
<p>Columbia overall does have a better reputation in the US. People don’t necessarily prefer CoE over SEAS due to fit (large school/small school, small town/large city, etc). But I do think CoE is a superior engineering school. SEAS might be harder to get into, but that doesn’t seem to matter very much in the end.</p>
<p>What you’ll find at the other schools is a higher proportion of students who don’t actually intend to pursue engineering as a career.</p>
<p>My advice is if you dont intend to pursue engineering as a career, don’t major in it, because you will be expending your one shot at an undergraduate education on many technically oriented courses in areas that you’ve no ultimate interest in, and these will be less useful as general background for life, compared to other things you could be studying instead.</p>
<p>In my day,the more relevant alternatives to Cornell engineering were the programs such as at MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley and RPI. these are schools where many students actually intended to be engineers.</p>
<p>With the possible exception of MIT & CalT, where you get your bach makes little difference even two years down the road (unless the hiring official happens to be an alum of where you went). </p>
<p>I agree w/ monydad, if you want to be an engineer go to Cornell. If you want to be a investment banker to hi-tech firms or a patent lawyer go to Columbia.</p>