<p>Just thought you guys might be interested in these stats for the class of 2010, taken from the Cavalier Daily. Notice how high the admissiion percentages are for the engineering school, even OOS rate is over 50%:</p>
<p>yes thats true - uva engineering by the numbers is pretty easy to get into. However everyone should remember that in general uva engineers have better SATs than the A&S counterparts. While on a much smaller scale - its somewhat similar to the siutation chicago is in - whereas it has a comparable student body to schools with much lower acceptance rates.</p>
<p>I understand what you mean... to paraphrase the Dean of Engineering in the article: the applicants were actually better than in the prior year. They are trying to increase enrollment by 30 per year in order to eventually have the total engineering enrollment be 200 higher than in 2005. This increase will generate more revenue, allowing more faculty to be hired, and thus more research, and eventual ranking in the top 20 engineering programs.</p>
<p>I was debating whether to apply to A&S or Engineering. I have been thinking about Engineering majors mostly but I also wanted to see if I would like going into chem/bio. I guess I could go for biomed engineering to get the best of both worlds?</p>
<p>UVA's engineering admission rate being higher than LAS is not surprising. That actually bears true at a lot of universities even though the usual 50% class rank/test score range for engineering is higher than other colleges at the university. What usually happens is that the engineering applicant pool is more self-selective than for the other colleges and thus most applying for engineering have higher rank/test scores. The ideal example of such self-selectivity is Caltech. Its 50% class rank/test score range is traditionally the highest in the nation but its admission rate is generally significantly higher than the ivies.</p>
<p>My son will be a freshman in engineering at UVA this fall. He wants biomedical, but you don't apply for your specialty until after your freshman year (I think). It is also limited to 60, so it's very hard to get into.</p>
<p>Based on the career prospects alone, biomedical engineering does not fare as well as EE, ECE, ME or CHE among the various engineering majors. So if you are thinking of getting the best of both worlds (Engg + Med), also think of the probability of success later on.</p>