<p>Applying RD and it looks like my chances are decent based on my school's graphs... but I've heard its much harder to get into the Engineering school (which I would be applying to). How much harder?</p>
<p>well IDK the actual stats, but I’ll give ya some perspective.</p>
<p>When they say harder for Engineering, I’m not sure what it is relative to. For example, some of the colleges at Cornell are a lot easier to get into, such as hotel, human ecology, etc. They tend to be more specialized and draw in less applicants.</p>
<p>Now, relative to the Arts and Sciences, I think Engineering is mostly on par. I think Engineering admits a larger % of students but also boasts higher stats (basically means its self-selective). Note, this is true at most schools, such as Columbia.</p>
<p>BTW, so u know my perspective, I applied this year RD to Arts and Sciences but I wish I could take it back and change it to Engineering. I applied thinking I wanted a physics major but now I like Engineering Physics. Now this means that if I get into/ go to Cornell I have to wait a semester or year b4 transferring from CAS to Engineering. Luckily, the only diff between a physics major and EP 1st year is that EP majrs take computer science and an intro engineering class (which I’ll have to take as electives) and I have to take the engineering math track.</p>
<p>What the above poster said is mostly true. I think (or it’s close) that engineering has the highest acceptance rate, but I also think the self-selection element is true. From my experiences though, I will say that engineers are really, really good at science/math. So being merely above average in all other subjects is probably good enough as long as you are extremely strong in science and math. It’s probably worse to be top 10% in all subjects for engineering than top 5% math/science and top 15% elsewhere.</p>