<p>how selective are they? I decided to major in engineering just this year so I don't have any particular "engineering extracurricular" things.</p>
<p>would submitting a teacher rec from someone other than engineering related hurt my chances in any way? (for ex. a AP bio teacher?)</p>
<p>They're pretty selective. My son applied last year. He got accepted to Wash U, but didn't receive a scholarship. He was in the top 5% of a very competitive private school, editor-in-chief of school newspaper, won international photography awards, and did substantive cancer research with a CS professor at Rice full-time during 2 summers and his high school's interim term. He wrote about the research for the scholarship essay. He received wonderful scholarships from 5 other schools, though, so he ended up matriculating somewhere other than Wash U. </p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>My daughter is currently a senior engineering major at WashU and she did not have any engineering related activities prior to attending. Just get your teacher recommendations from the teachers you feel will write you the best recs. My daughter also received a very generous merit scholarship which was renewed each year. You never know how these things are decided so you have just as good a chance of a scholarship as any other applicant. Hope things work out.</p>