<p>Wow, you’re sensitive about this, aren’t you? </p>
<p>First of all, the size of the department implies that your range of options in the department isn’t particularly large either. That’s all I said. </p>
<p>Second of all, you’re implying that other engineering schools are trade-school-esque and bind their graduate to a career in engineering. I suppose I am doomed to a miserable career in engineering, eh? Not to mention a life of brutish calculations devoid of all culture and civilizations, the realm strictly reserved to those who don’t go to trade schools… </p>
<p>Third, please don’t talk about your engineering departments like that. If I was a professor in those schools, I would rather be miffed that the students went there not for the engineering but because there’s plenty of backup options. It really doesn’t make the school sound good when you imply you want to go there because you’re not really serious about engineering.</p>