<p>What is the easiest engineering to get accepted to? </p>
<p>The school I'm planning on is Cal Poly. I know that it's known for engineering so it'll be hard to get in. I'm still exploring engineering majors right now. Which engineering majors are the hardest to get in? The easiest? The most impacted? Least? I know that mechanical engineering is very popular and competitive. </p>
<p>I'm not going to just apply to the easiest one to get into, but I would like to have an idea on how much harder it'll be for me to get accepted. </p>
<p>There’s a vast difference between the most difficult and easiest admits at Cal Poly. Roughly 15% of Aero, BME, ME and CS are admitted. Around 75% of IE are admitted. What’s hard about Poly is that you can’t back door an admit into the more selective departments. You can change majors, but it is difficult and related to, among other things, how well you would have stacked up against the cohort of the other major. A move from ME to IE, pretty easy. The other way, not so much. </p>
<p>Engineering disciplines are diverse. Learn more about them. Don’t choose one school and settle on any discipline just to get in. It’s a recipe for unhappiness. Figure out what you want to study first, then figure out where you want to apply. Make sure you also search out schools you’d be happy at that you KNOW you can get into and you KNOW you can afford. Cal Poly is a good program (my son is an ME there), but there are LOTS of good programs. Who knows, you might settle on ChemE. Poly doesn’t have it.</p>
<p>Going into metaphor mode, don’t get the cart before the horse and don’t put all your eggs in one basket.</p>