@Mastadon From the data on asee Iowa States engineering program is the 7th largest in the country, as opposed to others which are not even top 20, does having large programs help schools ?
The 2018 ACT scores for Iowa State Engineering are 26-31
Steven is 29-33
Worcester is 28-32
so they look pretty similar considering Iowa accepts about 80% of the students and so I am assuming that the ones left after attrition would be students with upper 28-29 ACT score