<p>Princeton
Harvard-MIT</p>
<p>Cornell
UPenn
Yale
Brown
Dartmouth</p>
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…unless you happen to be looking for a reasonable reach and are wondering which Ivy you have the best shot at. Who said the OP cares about quality? Heck, (s)he could be planning to major in engineering and head to law school. </p>
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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>Duke PRATT!!! LOL… It’s good in Biomedical engineering… but it’s ranked like 25th in the nation…</p>
<p>HARVARD GOOD AT ENGINEERING!!! ■■■■■. You have no clue what you are saying. Cross registration at MIT does not give Harvard the edge over Princeton in engineering.</p>
<p>Princeton engineering is tied with Johns Hopkins and Northwestern for 14th undergraduate engineering.</p>
<p>So it’s pretty good among the Ivy league schools, probably second best to Cornell which is like top 10 in the nation.</p>
<p>Cornell (10th)
Princeton (14th)</p>
<p>Columbia/Harvard/UPenn (three way tie at 28th)</p>
<p>Brown (39th)</p>
<p>Dartmouth/Yale (two way tie at 47th)</p>
<p>If you are an engineering applicant with a strong math/science background and good in other subjects, do you think you’d be more likely to get into Cornell engineering or Yale with the intention of engineering? Because I know a guy who was rejected from Cornell CoE but accepted to Yale (no hooks or anything in either case). Something similar happened a couple years back with two other applicants as well.</p>
<p>Is this just the crapshoot admission factor, or is it Yale trying to upgrade its engineering program by bringing in students who can’t get into the very top engineering schools.</p>
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It’s an interesting story, but one applicant is not significant. These things happen – a couple years ago a poster got rejected from Chicago EA but accepted at Stanford RD.</p>
<p>Cornell Engineering
SAT M: 730-800
SAT CR: 660-750
Top 10% of class: 96%
Admitted: 26.0%</p>
<p>Yale
SAT M: 700-780
SAT CR: 700-800
Top 10% of class: 97%
Admitted: 8.29%</p>
<p>I’m not sure why anyone would want to attend Yale for engineering. 47th in the nation. Even though I agree, you do attend a fantastic Ivy league school. It’s abysmal for your intended major. You can probably get into Georgia tech which is like half the price and admissions far more easier than Yale. It’s definitely better as well lol.</p>
<p>There are certain aspects that would make some applicants very appealing to Yale while not so much at Cornell. I doubt it was the fact that he applied to engineering (though Yale might give you a slight bump compared to people going for more common majors) but maybe some random soft factor that no one really knows aside from the adcoms.</p>
<p>The only reason to go to Yale over say GA Tech are the exit opportunities from Yale. GA Tech might be better for industry, but Yale is better for business and lucrative careers not available to people who didn’t graduate from top schools. Not all engineering majors want to be engineers after they graduate.</p>
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Presumably because, like at Hopkins, less than 33% of engineering majors at Yale actually intend to go into engineering after graduation. To the majority of engineering majors, it matters that they went to Yale – not how well ranked their programs are. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>^ Hopkins/Northwestern is actually ranked 13th in the nation. Princeton, 12th. </p>
<p>So you are saying only 33% of engineering majors actually intend on going into engineering after graduate. Incredible. Do they typically go into finance or go work for consulting firms? What do they do? I am so curious.</p>
<p>I would LOVE to go to Yale for engineering. I agree, like you said, for the name of course. 
Understandably, I would take advantage of course offerings at other Yale undergraduate schools and network my way into success that way lol.</p>
<p>^Yeah, you guys are spot on about why he went to Yale over state schools with a similar caliber to GaTech engineering. Although it wasn’t an easy choice for him. </p>
<p>Another question: will the engineering education you get really be that different between two schools with a large disparity in engineering ranking (like Yale vs. GaTech)?</p>
<p>^your research opportunities and recruiting from industry will be better at GA Tech. Your overall undergrad education and the calibur of your peers would probably be better at Yale.</p>
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<p>For some students, Yale may be much less expensive than Georgia Tech. A student might get substantial need-based financial aid at Yale but have to pay full out-of-state tuition at Georgia Tech.</p>
<p>Admittedly, getting into Yale would be more difficult. However, assuming that this hypothetical student did get accepted to both, would it make more sense to choose Yale (the cheaper option) over Georgia Tech?</p>
<p>Or is Georgia Tech’s engineering program so much better that one should turn down Yale and pay big $$$ for GT?</p>
<p>The thing is that many Ivy engineers choose to be in business working as Venture Capitalists, strategy consultants, and working in high finance - which tend to be much more lucrative than engineering jobs. In this regard the Ivies excel. In terms of being an actual engineer (such as a mechanical engineer at boeing for example) the best bet is to go to a place like Ga Tech.</p>
<p>At Cornell, I lived in a house full of engineering majors. One went to work for Bank Suisse, a couple went to med school, the rest went into engineering. Cornell’s engineering school is designed to prepare engineers and that is what the large majority go into. Banking is a waste of a good education, if you ask me. I get the impression that bankers are greedy and shallow.</p>
<p>The Engineering School at Cornell is the best in the Ivies. It is about as selective as MIT in terms of SAT scores. The admit rate doesn’t accurately portray its selectivity. It is a large engineering school with excellent resources.</p>
<p>Princeton is excellent.
Columbia and Penn are very good.</p>
<p>I don’t consider the engineering program at Harvard to be very good. You get a degree in general engineering. But, you might be able to go to a good engineering graduate school.</p>
<p>Brown has a pretty good program in biomedical eng.</p>
<p>What I recall about Yale is that the faculty are drawn from other disciplines. Not sure you can specialize at Yale.</p>
<p>The programs at Harvard, Yale, and Brown are small.</p>
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<p>Great points.</p>
<p>Answering the op’s question–</p>
<p>Cornell</p>
<p>–the rest</p>
<p>Does this mean Cornell is the best in the nation or world? NO (Although, it is close to being one of the best hehe)</p>
<p>So discussions of the other Ivie’s is beside the point.</p>
<p>^ Cornell is ranked 10th, Princeton is ranked 12th… lol. :rolleyes: Princeton has a very strong undergraduate engineering program. Like what IBClass06 said, I assume that most of the Princeton engineering undergraduates end up in consulting or finance anyways. lol</p>
<p>I never knew Princeton had a undergraduate engineering division lol.</p>
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<p>^ I bet your Cornell peers would disagree. Princeton is like no where to be seen in the DARPA challenges…</p>
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<p>No? What are these then?</p>
<p>[Undergraduate</a> Studies](<a href=“http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/undergraduate/index.html]Undergraduate”>http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/undergraduate/index.html)</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.seas.harvard.edu/academic/[/url]”>http://www.seas.harvard.edu/academic/</a></p>