ranking undergraduate engineering schools

mercymom
Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:50:07 +0000

there is something to the business of a school ranking higher if their students are smarter (determined by the average test scores/gpa of the entering class), but i think there are clusters within the rankings where the difference doesn’t matter so much 'cause the weaker students entering tend not to finish. some, if not a lot of them, drop out as early as the first semester. once they see how hard engrg really is they decide it’s not for them. so the strongest students are who goes on to the advanced course work and that’s where there may be no difference at all between schools in a ranking group.