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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any stats to back up this view?[/quote]

I know CMU admits a greater percentage of women than men; the disparity is greater than average.[/quote]

This is true of MIT but it’s not because they’re less selective with women; the female applicant pool is stronger over all so a higher percentage of them end up being admitted.[/quote]

Fewer women apply, and if they want even classes, a greater percentage will be admitted.[/quote]

Yes, but the fewer women who apply have better stats than the men on average.  So even if MIT (I use this as a example because the admissions office has been up front about these facts for years) didn’t look at the gender of incoming candidates when reviewing applications they’d still get a pretty well balanced class because the female applicants self select and the male ones don’t.  So it’s not “easier” to get into MIT as a woman, even if a higher percentage of the women who apply are accepted.[/quote]
+1000 This!

Women interested in STEM fields often undersell their abilities and don't apply to as many top schools as they are actually qualified for. Many men overestimate their abilities and apply to many more top schools. So the female applicant pool is smaller and already self-selected towards the strongest students, whereas the male applicant pool is much larger and just has more less qualified students. MIT has outreach programs to underrepresented high school students like https://mites.mit.edu/ and https://web.mit.edu/wtp/ to get strong high school students onto the campus and able to see themselves at MIT, so that they will apply. Even with active outreach, they still don't have parity.[/quote]

All this is fine but the answer to OP's question is "Yes, girls really do have an admissions advantage for engineering schools."  Common datasets for every school has enough data to prove this out.  Virginia Tech has a fancy page that shows this as well.  Don't know why we have to put up with 2 pages of denial and spin when the answer is pretty clear to a simple, straightforward question! [/quote]

Where are these data sets, broken down by applicant scores and personal demographic? [/quote]

Google "Common Dataset &lt;University Name&gt;"; Research each university's website for details by department.  For example (as I pointed out earlier), Virginia Tech posts stats broken down by race, gender, generation, etc. for each department.  Some others do that too (for you to find at the schools you care about).  Now get off your lazy ass and do some research rather than asking others to.  I'm in the business of teaching people how to fish, not...[/quote]

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