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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I attended UVA Engineering School.  A huge chunk of my cohort (Rodman Honors Program) attended TJ and other high ranking high schools.  I can assure you that [u]everybody[/u] was working their asses off and absolutely burnt out from the workload.  Nobody would have considered it a "breeze".  [/quote]
It would not surprise me that this is correct for engineering students.   Pre-med, Physics, and other fields are also probably going to be difficult regardless of where you go.  One of the big differences in these schools is probably that a much higher percentage of CMU students are in difficult STEM fields than at UVA. [b] UVA tends to be on the lower end for comparable universities for percentage of students majoring in STEM.[/quote][/b]
Citation please. You or someone else keeps saying this but I disagree.  My DC is in aerospace engineering at UVA. The competition is fierce, and, yes, lots of Rodman Scholars.[/quote]
[quote=Anonymous]Not PP, but you can compare percents for majors in section J of the Common Data Set (though for a STEM total you'd need to add up the majors you consider STEM).
https://ira.virginia.edu/cds-2019-20
https://www.cmu.edu/ira/CDS/pdf/cds_2019-20/j-degrees-conferred.pdf[/quote]
For engineering by itself, UVA 11%, CMU 27%[/quote]

UVA  
4.15% CS
11.72% Engineering
1.54% Math/Statistics
2.80% Physical Sciences
6.58% Biological/Life Sciences
26.79% Total

CMU
11.55% CS
27.46% Engineering
10.10% Math/Statistics
4.23% Physical Sciences
4.61% Biological/Life Sciences
57.95% Total

CMU has 2.2X as many in these fields on a percentage basis.

Someone on this forum did this comparison for a bunch of schools.  UVA was toward the bottom in percentages.  It was lower than quite a few schools that don't have engineering.  
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Just to add some additional additional context.  Duke has 48% of majors in the fields above (compared to 27% at UVA).[/quote]

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