I don’t like percentages for whole schools or departments because the don’t give a true picture for individual majors. At Cal Poly they accept 70% of Industrial Engineering applicants and 5% of CS applicants (yes, you read that right). The acceptance rate for the school overall across all colleges and majors is 28%. In this case, and you can know them because they publish them, the overall percentage tells you nothing. In almost all schools CS will be below, or as in the case of Cal Poly, far below the average.
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