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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We, too, have a STEM-focused girl with good stats, and we also live in Virginia, with an HHI &lt;$130K. Thing is, she wants a small school (&lt;2500 students) and the options in Virginia are not plentiful. She went to Juniata’s Open house last month and really liked it, sat in on a Chemistry class and got to talk to the professor (a lady). That made a big impression on her. We’ll be looking at a number of schools on the CTCL list.[/quote]

Once she gets into the thick of her engineering classes in her major even the biggest state schools become small schools. The climate for women is often better at a school with a good number of female students and female professors so I’d put that on the list more so than a small school.[/quote]

She’s not interested in engineering, per se. Probably chemistry or biochem. I’m an engineer and I’d definitely steer her to larger schools if that was her interest, but right now, it’s not.[/quote]

Good for her. I’m an engineer too and DD wants no part of that and I’m fine with that (it’s a bit of a relief really). Chemistry /Biochem are great subjects to study and there are many schools to choose from. I’d still look for female student experiences at the schools she is interested in. Boston U was apparently horrible for women in the geology department for the last 20+ years :

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/11/17/plans-fire-geology-professor-for-sexual-harassment/BCMLcdXNzSIty8WlZRWxJJ/amp.html[/quote]

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