<p>@bomerr</p>
<p>I agree lots of people drop out of engineering, but that isn’t what you said in your post. You said:
- Applying in engineering led to rejects.
- A humanities kid can’t change “stripes”.
- Writing is too good for you to be an engineer.
- Go to a small college because giant lectures are crappy.</p>
<p>I somewhat agree with #4 and disagree with the rest, which is why I said you are mostly wrong. Your last comment #4 indirectly gets to why more people drop out of engineering. Large schools tend to accept many more engineering students than they can support in upper-division classes. They resolve this by using a competition later in school where only a certain number of students can continue in engineering to the upper division classes. If you don’t make the cut, you either have to change your major or transfer schools. I saw that make loads of students change majors. And smaller private schools tend not to take this cutthroat approach.</p>