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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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[b]Just to add some additional additional context.  Duke has 48% of majors in the fields above (compared to 27% at UVA).[/quote][/b]

Uh, at almost 80K a year.  No thank you[/quote]

This has nothing to do with cost.  It has to do with the majors students choose when they go there.  More UVA students could choose to major in these fields, like at the schools listed above, but they don't.[/quote]

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