<p>I’m currently stuck between choosing non-engineering or engineering… </p>
<p>A lot of good schools seem to ask you to choose between two, and there are two different schools in the same school. </p>
<p>Does anybody know which one is more selective? schools of engineering? or the other? </p>
<p>I heard about Columbia which has less selective school of engineering than that of arts&Science or something. </p>
<p>How about others? like Princeton, and so on. </p>
<p>Is there much difference???</p>
<p>It probably depends. Columbia was the only one I really knew about. Also, Columbia is by far–correct me if I’m wrong–the most strict school when it comes to this. I’m pretty sure that it’s fairly easy to change your major from engineering to non-engineering at any other school.</p>
<p>Columbia is strict because they’re two separate institutions.
For Princeton, you apply to the overall University, but if you declare BSE (engineering) when applying, they ask you to write a little extra to explain why.</p>
<p>Cornell and Bucknell</p>
<p>The reason is, engineers have to take VERY different courses than many other majors, and it’s extremely difficult for somebody just switch into the fast-past track. It’s much easier to transfer out of engineering than into it.</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter so much where you go… you’re definitely going to want to decide before you apply whether engineering is right for you.</p>
<p>I am pretty sure I want to go into engineering Mercury, but what type of courses are you talking about? Advanced physics/calculus/chemistry?</p>
<p>Engineering is a lot of physics, chemistry, calculus and higher level math, some computer science, engineering applications.</p>
<p>Everything else is not. That’s why you need to decide which fork in the road to take.</p>
<p>I am currently having this exact same problem!!</p>
<p>So if you apply to the normal college, is is possible to switch into engineering? Or is it possible, but just difficult?</p>