<p>How do these schools rank in selectivity, for engineering</p>
<p>Cornell
Penn
Columbia
Princeton</p>
<p>Of the Ivies, only Columbia, Cornell, and Penn have separate engineering admissions. Princeton does, however, look more carefully at the math/science background of engineering prospectives. Unfortunately, limited statistics are available about the three engineering schools.</p>
<p>Cornell Engineering
SAT M: 730-800
SAT CR: 660-750
Applied: 5999
Admitted: 1558
Number of freshmen: 715 (26.0%)</p>
<p>Penn SEAS
Applied: 3464
Admitted: 762 (22.0%)
Number of freshmen: ~405</p>
<p>Columbia Fu
Applied: 419 ED, 3046 RD
Admitted: 142 ED (33.9%), 467 RD (15.3%)
Number of freshmen: 317</p>
<p>Going purely by admit rates (a hazardous and not always accurate procedure), the selectivity would be as follows.</p>
<p>Harvard 7.92%
Yale 8.29%
Princeton 9.93%
Dartmouth 13.5%
Brown 13.7%
Columbia Fu 17.6%
Penn SEAS 22.0%
Cornell Engineering 26.0%</p>
<p>I would guess-</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton/Columbia FU</li>
<li>Penn SEAS/Cornell</li>
</ol>
<p>with only a very slight difference between ranks 1 and 2… </p>
<p>Harvard, Dartmouth, Yale, and Brown are really too small to be compared to the four above</p>
<p>^I’d agree with the rankings above, Columbia SEAS this year had an acceptance rate of 14.4% overall, down from 17.2 the year before, its SAT scores would be slightly higher than Columbia College’s, so I’d say it’s about as selective as Princeton (Columbia this year had a lower acceptance rate than Princeton, with lower SAT scores however). Penn SEAS and Cornell Engineering would be comparable.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, we only have the SAT scores for Cornell. SATs are a better indication of selectivity than admit rates. This question is difficult to answer. Note that the Caltech admit rate is 17% yet they are the most selective school in the country based on SATs.</p>