Going to Yale for engineering major is probably a big mistake. The engineering department is too small and is not well regarded by its peers. Despite the effort by Yale shore its support for the program, there is not much showing in the academic hard numbers. Here is the most recent ranking of engineering productivity (both quality and quantity) by institutions in the world (Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities). Yale is ranked 103 in the world, and is rock-bottomed in the IVY league schools, behind Harvard, Cornell, Princeton, Penn, Columbia, and Brown. It is just an utter embarrassment to Yale.