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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So here’s my question …
Is it harder to get into Wisconsin for engineering than to get into Harvard engineering?
Harder to get into Purdue engineering than Columbia gnegineering? 
I just find it really challenging to built a “target” or “reach” list for engineering schools.    I don’t really have a sense of how hard it is to get into those top 30 engineering schools.[/quote]

Of course not. Ivies/stanford etc are far and away harder to get in and have much stronger students: average SAT metrics show it. 
Acceptance rate does not mean much. 
Us news “ranking” of engineering schools is not a ranking of the most rigorous, the most open doors to the top-paying engineering careers, or the most likely to place into top phD programs. Ivy+ and top publics such as UCB win on these metrics. Not coincidentally they also have the highest-scoring students. 
For example VT: ranked above known rigorous engineering on this list and yet the SAT math average is 700 for entering engineering students. The curriculum has minimum ABET hours, much less rigorous than the top schools require. 
No one seriously academic uses the usnews list to find the most rigorous engineering program: it is a useless list for that because the metrics they use do not relate directly to the quality of the education. [/quote]

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