<p>I'm currently stuck between choosing non-engineering or engineering... </p>
<p>A lot of good schools seem to ask you to choose between two, and there are two different schools in the same school. </p>
<p>Does anybody know which one is more selective? schools of engineering? or the other? </p>
<p>I heard about Columbia which has less selective school of engineering than that of arts&Science or something. </p>
<p>How about others? like Princeton, and so on. </p>
<p>Is there much difference???</p>
<p>It probably depends. Columbia was the only one I really knew about. Also, Columbia is by far--correct me if I'm wrong--the most strict school when it comes to this. I'm pretty sure that it's fairly easy to change your major from engineering to non-engineering at any other school.</p>
<p>Columbia is strict because they're two separate institutions.
For Princeton, you apply to the overall University, but if you declare BSE (engineering) when applying, they ask you to write a little extra to explain why.</p>
<p>Cornell and Bucknell</p>
<p>The reason is, engineers have to take VERY different courses than many other majors, and it's extremely difficult for somebody just switch into the fast-past track. It's much easier to transfer out of engineering than into it.</p>
<p>It doesn't matter so much where you go... you're definitely going to want to decide before you apply whether engineering is right for you.</p>
<p>I am pretty sure I want to go into engineering Mercury, but what type of courses are you talking about? Advanced physics/calculus/chemistry?</p>
<p>Engineering is a lot of physics, chemistry, calculus and higher level math, some computer science, engineering applications.</p>
<p>Everything else is not. That's why you need to decide which fork in the road to take.</p>
<p>I am currently having this exact same problem!!</p>
<p>So if you apply to the normal college, is is possible to switch into engineering? Or is it possible, but just difficult?</p>