<p>I actually agree with you but even in engineering, for example nuclear engineering is great and for the geniuses but certainly not that many opportunities in commercial than EECS.
I also agree with this learned helplessness(I think you coined the term a while few years back) regarding math. For example, EECS at UCB are 80-90% Asian such as Indian, Chinese. Maybe all the non-Asian went to Stanford? :D</p>