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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 CMU, 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]

Outside of “tech” schools, what other schools follow this anomaly?[/quote]

we just toured and gtech was more like 60/40 boys
boys 60-white/30-asian /10 other race
girls 60 asian 30 white/10 other race
thats what it looked like to me--engineering tour[/quote]

We toured CMU which looked 90% Asian and it felt like it lives to its reputation of a school where kids don’t know how to have fun.

Anecdotes about them going to a bar and studying there or to the carnival and just standing not knowing what to do.

One dad on the tour told me it’s very safe there because there are no parties.[/quote]

gtech poster here--good to know, will let kid know, touring CMU next month.everything was great about gtech-except the weather[/quote]

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