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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's surprising that engineering has a higher retention rate than the school as a whole. It's also nice to see that nobody fails. I guess Penn bats a thousand when accepting students. [/quote]

Many Ivys and other T20 schools have many more fully-qualified students than they could accept. So they only accept fully qualified candidates.

A random public land-grant university in a random state might not have the same ability. [/quote]
I think that this is probably the answer. From Georgia Tech to Iowa State, public universities do have a remit to educate some number of their in-state students. Some like Iowa State even have to admit based on a formula embedded in state legislation. This means that kids get admitted to engineering or pre-engineering that might not have taken calc and physics, and the struggle begins.

I also think part of the Ivy schtick is that they only admit the best (debatable—think athletes, legacies) so they have a light touch with the grading which keeps kids in the programs longer. It actually might do an Ivy student good to sweat a couple of grades once in a while.

Either way, any worthwhile program is going to have tough courses and plenty of support available to help when needed.

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