re: Competition for College Admissions in Texas is unreal

The first year of engineering courses at A&M is basically an attempt to weed out those who won't cut it. Some like freshman chemistry for engineers are ridiculously hard and a large portion switch majors by sophomore years.

Upper level engineering courses here are on the level of absurdity at times, but by then you've only got the best and brightest still cutting it so the class averages are pretty high.

Medical school was a bit easier IMO than engineering at A&M. You are fed through a fire hydrant in med school but no individual class is as hard as the engineering classes I had.