I am saying POINT-BLANK, that no, engineering schools are meritocracies.
Never said they were.
However, you said “Engineering schools are not “colleges,” (which are also filled with dumb jocks and legacies.)”
which is difficult to interpret.
There are very few Engineering only schools - Harvey Mudd College comes to mind. Almost all are part of a big ‘U’ usually a big ‘state U”. “Big State U” does have its jocks, etc. occasionally they wander into the engineering programs and even more occasionally they graduate.