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<p>Uh, actually, according to USNews, for undergrad, Harvard engineering actually outranks WUSTL. That’s right - for engineering.</p>
<p>For grad school, Harvard engineering outranks JHU, Rice, and Duke. Again, yes, we’re talking about engineering.</p>
<p>Harvard is actually a very good engineering school, when you consider that there are literally hundreds and hundreds of engineering programs out there, most of them being lower-tier no-name programs. That’s especially so when you consider the fact that Harvard engineering students have full cross-register access to MIT, which is arguably the best engineering school in the world. Engineering students at JHU, WUSTL, Rice, or Duke certainly don’t have access to MIT or any other comparable school. In fact, I would say that the combined engineering resources available to an student at Harvard - both at his home school and through MIT - probably exceed the resources that of almost any other engineering school out there.</p>
<p>So perhaps that begs the question of why a Harvard engineering student just doesn’t matriculate at MIT instead. One simple reason is that not everybody has that choice. I’ve certainly known a few Harvard engineering students who candidly admitted that they would have preferred to go to MIT, but they didn’t get in. It also presumes that you know that you want to be an engineer ex-ante. Let’s face it - many high school seniors don’t really know what they want to major in. Plenty of people don’t really know that they want to major in engineering until they are already in college.</p>