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[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]

It wasn't a comment about the difficulty of these programs at UVA or your DC's program.  It was simply a comment that UVA tends to have a lower percentage of students in STEM fields based on data in Common Data Sets. Here is a list of top 20 national universities plus top 5 national LACs plus selected publics (Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, Texas, UVA) ranked by percentage of students in CS, Engineering, Physical Sciences, Bio/Life Sciences, and Math/Statistics:

University	Total
Caltech	98%
MIT	89%
Stanford	50%
Duke	48%
Princeton	47%
Harvard	46%
Swarthmore	44%
Cornell	44%
Rice	42%
WashU	41%
Michigan	41%
Pomona	40%
Berkeley	36%
Brown	36%
Williams	35%
Northwestern	34%
Amherst	34%
Texas	34%
Wellesley	33%
Yale	33%
UCLA	33%
Notre Dame	33%
Dartmouth	32%
Vanderbilt	31%
Penn	30%
UVA	27%

If you take out engineering (which not all schools have), it looks like this:

University	Total less Engineering
Caltech	62%
MIT	54%
Harvard	42%
Pomona	40%
Swarthmore	37%
Williams	35%
Amherst	34%
Wellesley	33%
Duke	33%
Stanford	32%
Princeton	30%
Brown	29%
Cornell	27%
Yale	27%
WashU	26%
UCLA	26%
Michigan	25%
Berkeley	25%
Dartmouth	24%
Rice	24%
Northwestern	21%
Texas	21%
Notre Dame	20%
Penn	20%
Vanderbilt	19%
UVA	15%

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