<p>Smith is the only engineering program in the nation where graduates with a 3.5 GPA are GUARANTEED admission to engineering graduate programs at Princeton, Dartmouth, Notre Dame, Univ. of Michigan, Johns Hopkins, and Tufts. The big difference in the Smith program is that 50% of classes must be taken outside of the engineering core - in social sciences and humanities. The concept is that they hope to be educating not only engineers, but engineering managers and executives, of which they are notoriously few of the double-X persuasion.</p>