School of engineering question

Applying to College
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Hello, I’m curious about applying to a school of engineering at an IV League or Stanford. If one is accepted at a school of engineering, does that mean that one cannot double major outside of the school of engineering? For example, I’m interested in political science: would I not be able to also major in some aspect of government? Also, if I apply to a University’s school of engineering, will I only be competing against other candidates to the school of engineering? Due to my interest in politics, my ranges of extracurricular activites are equally divided amongst engineering and politics. Would this put me at a disadvantage against an aspiring engineering student who has focused solely on engineering? Am I better off not applying to a school of engineering? Thanks!

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<p>Majoring in engineering and something else non-engineering would be very difficult due to the heavy course load e-students have, hmmm...different schools different policies, check their webpages.</p>

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<p>What about my questions about admissions?</p>

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<p>Many universities will allow double majors. Whether you can actually do it is a different question since majoring in engineering makes it quite difficult to find the time to also do another major outside of engineering and have any hope of graduating in 4 years. As to whom you are compared with for admission, it depends on the university. Some purport to weigh all candidates as one large group (e.g., Princeton and Yale) regardless of particular college or major chosen. Others (Stanford) separately evaluate based on particular college at the university, e.g., those who apply for engineering are evaluated separately from those applying to other colleges in the university like Arts & Sciences. That can often make a significant difference in your chances for admission; example: Univeristy of Illinois: the engineering college is the hardest to which to gain admission and its usual middle 50% class rank/test scores for those admitted is significantly higher than the 50% range for any other college at the university. Nevertheless, having EC's in things related to engineering and politics is not itself going to create any disadvantage to being admitted to engineering.</p>