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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any new wisdom you gathered in the last few weeks?[/quote]

It appears to be an extremely difficult year for girls. Unless you have a ton of unusual or uncommon awards in an uncommon major.

Without something extremely uncommon / unusual or an early decision application from a feeder private school, being test optional is a kiss of death (even at Vandy).

[b]Beware and be strategic with early decision for girls[/b].[/quote]

Not universally true. Some colleges have more guys than girls. When we toured Georgia Tech and [b]CMU,[/b] we saw 50% asian boys, 20% asian girls, and 30% non-asians but mostly boys. I bet black, white and brown girls get a bump at these tech schools but most girls I know don't want to spend 4 years on these campuses where it's all intense work and little play (unless you count D&D with a bunch of nerdy boys as "play")[/quote]

CMU is 50/50, however, it's a strange school in that it is well known for both STEM and theatre/arts.  STEM is heavily male, while the arts are heavily female.  It has a strong business program which is also close to 50/50.

My guess is you were looking at CMU for STEM and only focused on what you saw in the STEM buildings.[/quote]

You could be right. We did the general admissions tour though, not any specialty STEM tour. Walking around campus for 1.5 hours and then grabbing lunch in the cafeteria (forgot which one), all we saw were Asian boys. I know CMU said they are 50/47/3 M/F/non-binary because DC and I sat in on the admissions info session after the tour. Literally when the AO said that, I thought to myself, where are these other 30% of girls hiding? [/quote]

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