Engineering students at NCSU may be admitted as “engineering first year” or “exploratory studies”. In either case, students need to apply into a competitive secondary admission process (CODA) to declare their majors.
Unfortunately, the CODA statistics linked in post #58 are not very useful, in that they do not show admission rates by college GPA ranges. Hence, it is not obvious which majors are more or less competitive to get into, so engineering students may find that their first year is focused on “managing their college GPA” more than anything else (and using a 4 on BC as two B grades may be detrimental in CODA to popular majors).