Probably true for schools that admit by major or division, but careful inspection of the numbers (to compare them with the overall admission numbers) would be needed to see if it is true at a given school.
At some schools that do not admit by major or division (e.g. CWRU), the numbers on the ASEE site look like those of the entire school.
@palm715 Just a theory…
Admit rates take into account yield rates. If Northeastern University has a much lower yield rate for engineering, than the school in general, that’s going to be reflected in it’s admit rate.
The engineering students do appear to have slightly better stats, which played some part in the higher admit rate.
Finally, it could reflect the schools capacity to handle that number of engineering students vs the school (and other majors) in general. Perhaps far more students applied for business (as an example), than it has the capacity to handle, hence a lower admit rate than engineering.
Lots of unknowns 