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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a really good question — so I assume it’s easier to get into someplace like WPi or Stevens as opposed to Mudd.  Does that mean classes will be any easier?  Or what does it mean?  [/quote]

Spouse is a professor who has taught and researched at non-flagship regional public, a public near the top (think UIUC level but it is not that one), and also an ivy with an engineering school that has offered phDs in many areas of engineering before almost every other ivy. The typical first year engineering classes are most definitely more rigorous at the ivy, even combining 2 semesters of content from the regional E school into one semester. The “upper level” E classes taken in typical 3rd or 4th yr for the regional school are taken 2nd yr at the ivy. The good public was closer to the ivy than the regional was to the good public, but there were still differences in pace. Rigor cannot be the same when the average student is so different and also when departments put pressure to not have 2/3 of the class wash out after first year. Engineering school retention figures are important. The top schools can push very hard and still retain 95%[/quote]

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