How to stand out in Engineering admissions

[Anonymous]

Which of the following courses are better for Engineering Admissions: AP Statistics or AP Environmental Science? DD can pick one as an elective.

[Anonymous]

Ok these things will help the most. Take the hard sciences AP Chem and AP Physics or higher and do well. Same with Math AP Calc at a minimum. Score at least 750 on Math portion of SAT. Participate in and where possible do well in science fair completions, solar car or submersible competitions, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Which of the following courses are better for Engineering Admissions: AP Statistics or AP Environmental Science? DD can pick one as an elective.

Statistics. ES is kinda a joke

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Anonymous wrote:Be an URM and be female.

That didn't work for my daughter's best friend. I think there are just so many engineering applicants these days that it's incredibly competitive.

My engineer has 70% females in his class.

I find this hard to believe. My DD at a T10 engineering school says the dept is only 30% female.

To answer op’s question, she had an 800 on math (770 on verbal), 4.0 uw in most rigorous classes across all academic disciplines , 5s on about 8 AP exams prior to senior year, relevant internship, summer jobs, sports, etc.

[Anonymous]

Gotta have the solid core - rigor, grades, and test scores. A few solid, participatory engineering activities are good. The clincher is some contrast, some color, like an interest in philosophy or art, or the ethics of science.

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Anonymous wrote:Which of the following courses are better for Engineering Admissions: AP Statistics or AP Environmental Science? DD can pick one as an elective.

Neither. Better to do AP Chem, AP PhysC, BC calc , multivariable, linear algebra….any of those not done yet would be better. And highest rigor in non-stem. If all those are done, AP Stat is better than APES

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be an URM and be female.

That didn't work for my daughter's best friend. I think there are just so many engineering applicants these days that it's incredibly competitive.

My engineer has 70% females in his class.

I find this hard to believe. My DD at a T10 engineering school says the dept is only 30% female.

To answer op’s question, she had an 800 on math (770 on verbal), 4.0 uw in most rigorous classes across all academic disciplines , 5s on about 8 AP exams prior to senior year, relevant internship, summer jobs, sports, etc.

Mine is at an ivy for engineering that is also a T10 , has the same stats plus some science awards, and The BME and environmental engineering areas are way above 50%. They have overall less than half female in all disciplines, but not by a lot. MechE, EE are the most male dominated but they aim for more of an overall 35-40% since that is similar to the overall applicants BUT the applicants have far more BME females than males —the SWE faculty said male and female balance is easier now and female is not really a boost the last 2 yrs due to how overloaded certain applicant areas are now. CS is close to 50% too.

[Anonymous]

Duke Engineering and some others say the most successful applicants have taken the highest physics and math available , and taken a 6th core course in math or science at least 2 of the 4 years of high school(“doubling”) and they expect senior year to be just as rigorous or more than the others. It is in writing in the brochure they handed out at a specific engineering tour, but we heard it verbally from many other elite universities that have direct entry Engineering .

[Anonymous]

Virtually all universities have separated engineering into a separate Engineering School within that university. So in most cases, engineering is direct entry into the E School.

It is much less common to have engineering mixed in with humanities in the same school within a university.

[Anonymous]

My DS just got accepted to a few T25 engineering programs this year…had 1500 SAT with 800 in math, year round sport with national level recognition, math tutor all throughout high and middle school, attended summer Engineering programs through NASA, had a year round part time job since sophomore year. Received awards from high school for accomplishments in math and science and took highest math and science classes high school offered and took extra AP math and science classes as electives. good luck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Which of the following courses are better for Engineering Admissions: AP Statistics or AP Environmental Science? DD can pick one as an elective.

AP Stats. AP ES is a joke

[Anonymous]

The kid I know who got into the most competitive engineering programs (MIT and CalTech) won a national poetry award. He explained in a supplemental essay how writing in meter is like coding with many restrictions, but it's still necessary to be creative to evoke emotion, just as one needs to be creative in coding.

He also started a robotics company as a middle schooler and sold it as a high school junior for enough to fun a 4 year ivy league degree.

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Anonymous wrote:Be an URM and be female.

This.

Yes because when I look at your average university engineering department, I see a bunch of women of color…

That's the point - these schools want to help change the tide

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be an URM and be female.

That didn't work for my daughter's best friend. I think there are just so many engineering applicants these days that it's incredibly competitive.

My engineer has 70% females in his class.

I find this hard to believe. My DD at a T10 engineering school says the dept is only 30% female.

To answer op’s question, she had an 800 on math (770 on verbal), 4.0 uw in most rigorous classes across all academic disciplines , 5s on about 8 AP exams prior to senior year, relevant internship, summer jobs, sports, etc.

It's really not that hard to believe when you think beauty industry and pharma.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be an URM and be female.

That didn't work for my daughter's best friend. I think there are just so many engineering applicants these days that it's incredibly competitive.

My engineer has 70% females in his class.

I find this hard to believe. My DD at a T10 engineering school says the dept is only 30% female.

To answer op’s question, she had an 800 on math (770 on verbal), 4.0 uw in most rigorous classes across all academic disciplines , 5s on about 8 AP exams prior to senior year, relevant internship, summer jobs, sports, etc.

Mine is at an ivy for engineering that is also a T10 , has the same stats plus some science awards, and The BME and environmental engineering areas are way above 50%. They have overall less than half female in all disciplines, but not by a lot. MechE, EE are the most male dominated but they aim for more of an overall 35-40% since that is similar to the overall applicants BUT the applicants have far more BME females than males —the SWE faculty said male and female balance is easier now and female is not really a boost the last 2 yrs due to how overloaded certain applicant areas are now. CS is close to 50% too.

My chem engineer is in a female heavy class as well.