Princeton vs Cornell vs Columbia

ucbalumnus
Sat, 27 Apr 2013 22:09:41 +0000

While attrition out of engineering is fairly high overall (e.g. 40% leave after the frosh year overall across all schools), it is much lower at the more selective schools (e.g. 80% of frosh engineering majors at a major relatively selective state flagship graduate with engineering degrees, although some may change to different engineering majors), presumably because the students at such schools are less likely to think that the frosh courses for engineering are “too hard”.

The OP may want to consider how committed s/he is to engineering, in order to determine the relative weight s/he should put on fit of major offerings versus fit of other offerings and ease of changing major.

But also, is there a significant price difference?