Help me choose between Rutgers, ASU, Texas A&M for computer engineering

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@Greymeer

For example, I have a friend whose 2 sons got into A&M college station engineering, both were solid “C” students at a rural Texas public HS, after 2 semesters at A&M they were in different non engineering majors. They shouldn’t have been in engineering in the first place.

They probably had good class rank in a low performing high school (Texas public universities use class rank instead of GPA for admission).

@Greymeer

10k applied, 85% offered, 4000 enrolled as freshmen. ~2000 will graduate with an engineering degree. So around half fail out.

Texas A&M does admit to first year general engineering, followed by competitive admission to specific engineering majors later. The ones not completing engineering degrees may not have failed out of the school, but may have not met the GPA (higher than 2.0, determined competitively) requirements for any engineering majors they were interested in.