^ That’s a good point. It’s possible (even likely) that there are many more business majors applying to these elite MBA programs, and that the percent admitted is much lower than that for the engineering majors that apply. I doubt that those stats are available.
By the same token, the large percentage of humanities majors in the Harvard and Stanford MBA programs can mean 1) that there are tons of them that apply and the percent admitted from that pool is very low, or 2) that the Harvard and Stanford MBA admissions folks don’t put a lot of emphasis on undergraduate academic difficulty (assuming, of course, that they concur that engineering is more difficult than the humanities).
My son got his grades last night. He has a 4.7. (MIT uses a 5 point grade scale.) He missed out on 5.0 by one grade point in his differential equations class.