<p>That’s not to say Columbia’s Core, whose curriculum is much more similar to UChicago’s than any of the other schools you mentioned, isn’t compromised in their engineering program. Students there take a less comprehensive version of the Core.</p>
<p>And consider starting your own thread next time. It was irrelevant to the original topic.</p>
<p>In regards to that, whenever people bring up Chicago’s old 50% acceptance I always wonder whether that’s truly as terrible as it’s assumed to be. Do you think that the student body was of a lesser caliber than it is today? And if it wasn’t, then what’s the problem.</p>
<p>(Quality defined less by stats and more by character and mental ability. Since those aren’t quantifiable, I guess we’ll never know.)</p>