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a set of admission requirements, a 1290 SAT orpeer mentorship allows new students to see beyond the 27 ACT. The first year of a pre-engineering student’sincoming year and enables them to build bonds which experience is structured with opportunities designed tocan sustain them through the peaks and valleys of the support and acclimate them to the culture within the school.academic experience. The School of Engineering and Two of these programs utilize upper-division studentComputer Science (ECS) at Baylor University utilizes a leaders, Peer Mentors, to guide new students through theirvariety of peer-mentoring models with pre-engineering incoming year. The New Student Experience (NSE