<p>Of course, that’s silly. Penn, Columbia, and Cornell have engineering schools, and Princeton has an excellent engineering program. (And I would suggest that Stanford illustrates pretty well that excellent engineering training can coexist with elite liberal arts education.) Yale had a venerable engineering school that it merged with the college after WWII.</p>
<p>Like Admissions Addict, most of my friends at Yale wound up getting advanced degrees and doing very, very well. (Including one suitemate who was an engineer and got an OR PhD from Berkeley. A number of people got decent entry-level management jobs coming straight out of college, although most wound up getting MBAs later. Also a number of successful authors, TV reporters/producers, journalists, and people in arts management.</p>