Well, since the early 1990s. Things may have changed, as I did point out in my post. Like I said, you needed a 95%+ average to be accepted into Comp Eng back in 1991: my engineer friends were all griping about how they barely got in, or didn't get in, to Computer Engineering.

I consider requiring over 95% as a overall average for admission to a program to be a "hard program to get into". Maybe you're so smart that you don't. :-)