<p>@UCBChemEGrad</p>
<p>You should know better than to make an absolute comparison like that. MIT, Stanford, and UCB have significantly more NAE members because they have several times more engineering faculty than Caltech. To do a fair comparison, you would calculate the percentage of engineering faculty who are NAE members for each school.</p>
<p>As for comparing RPI and WPI to state colleges, remember, state colleges often have a different admissions standards for their engineering colleges. Compare RPI and WPI to the admissions stats for Purdue’s engineering college, and see what comes up.</p>