Is aerospace engineering competitive?

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<p>Hi guys, i’m just wondering if the aerospace engineering is competitive in undergraduate at MIT, Cal Tech, Stanford, Berkeley?</p>

<p>thanks</p>

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<p>I don’t think Berkeley offers aerospace engineering as an undergrad major…</p>

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<p>What do you mean? Are you asking if admission to the program is competitive or if the students in the program itself are competitive?</p>

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<p>What do you mean by competitive? Everything at stanford is in some sense, competitive, as everyone is trying to do well. But at the same time, Stanford doesn’t have the cut-throat competitiveness that the ivies do. For the most part, you see a collaborative atmosphere. I am not a current student though, but i will be attending in the fall. This is what I’ve observed and heard.</p>

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<p>I mean the ratio apply/admit</p>

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<p>I mean the ratio apply/admit</p>

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<p>You don’t apply to a major. Applications are to MIT and your anticipated major is not considered.</p>

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<p>Stanford does not admit by major. You are admitted to Stanford, and not just any particular school/major.</p>

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<p>Ok, thank you</p>

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<p>^ To clarify, you choose your major at the end of freshman year. If you get into MIT, you’re in. You don’t have to further prove yourself to choose any major.</p>

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<p>However if you are asking for the institute admission ratio, I think its somewhere between 8% and 10%.</p>

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<p>And for international students? What is the ratio?</p>

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<p>^ ~3%</p>

<p>Tsen char.</p>

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<p>For fall of 2010,
~15000 prospectives applied and only ~1500 people were admitted.
In those numbers, ~3500 applicants were international and only ~100 of them were admitted.
To sum, in 2010, the admission ratio was 10%. The internal ratio for internationals was 3%. However if you compare to the whole applicant pool, the admission ratio for int’ls was 0.7%. Therefore, the class that started in 2010 was composed of 7% internationals.</p>

<p>The incoming freshman class’s 8.7% is composed of internationals. This looks like a serious increase.</p>

<p>Check mitadmissions.org for actual numbers.</p>

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<p>OMG…I have no chance :frowning:
I think they are all chinese lol</p>

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<p>You can do fine in aerospace from a school that isn’t Stanford/MIT/Caltech. Lots of people enter the industry from state schools that accept >50%. Maybe there are advantages to coming from Caltech, since it has the Jet Propulsion Laboratory or JHU, which has science centers for James Webb and Hubble as well as engineering for Messenger and New Horizons at the Applied Physics Laboratory.</p>