Should i apply to LSA or COE??

KronOmega
Thu, 26 Dec 2013 14:11:56 +0000

And the average GPA for CoE admission is 3.9 while 3.85 for LSA.

No it isn’t. The 3.9 that the CoE has on it’s website is rounded up from a 3.87. LS&A reports a 3.90 exactly without any rounding.



You should not compare between admission with enrollment stat as they are different.

Of course not. I used that to show where the numbers were coming from. The fact is that CoE’s numbers come from admitted (and not enrolled) students which makes their ACT scores to seem significantly higher than LS&A’s. Although the CoE doesn’t use the same reporting methodology as LS&A, if they did, it would with all likelihood lead to a one point difference between the two schools at most. A one point difference is completely negligible and can’t be used to say anything about the competitiveness of the two schools.

As I said before, if you have the ability to get into LS&A, you can almost certainly get into CoE as well. Similarly, if you can’t get into the CoE, chances are you can’t get into LS&A.

As a student in the CoE myself, I find it very bad advice to recommend applying to the perceived easier college. To do so only makes it more cumbersome to the applicant if they like one program less.