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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Compared to boys, still true?

Think Vanderbilt, MiT, CMU, Duke, Penn, Michigan?
Naviance shows my DD’s safeties as UVA, Michigan, Pitt and penn state. Can Naviancd be trusted? How is UVA a safety for out of state students? Yes she has rigorous courses, high stats..[/quote]

Per our private school counselor who used to work at a T10 school with engineering and other subjects, there are only a few schools left where females hae somewhat easier admission. These are MIT, CMU, Caltech , GT and UCB. The ivies,Duke, Hopkinsare where almost every top female engineering applicant prefers over MIT/CMU/GT/UCB. Mine decided not apply to any of those due to too tech-y or too big before CCO relayed that. These schools like other schools have about 55-58% of their total napplicants female, and for the E-school divisions the applicants are about 40-45% female the past 3 cycles or more, mostly BME/BE/Environmental. These top schools target 40-45% female in all Engineering majors combined, thus they can easily have the similar admit rates for females and males and get the ratio they desire. MIT still 65:35 male to female applicants but it has tightened up a lot as it was 3:1 a 15 yrs ago. This data is from the entering class of 2023 and 2024. DD25 just went through it as an Engineering applicant. She got into one less T10 than the prior year top engineering kid who was male. At her own high school three of the top five females her year were targeting ivy/duke specifially for engineering. IT is not an engineering or stem school! Like her, they wanted balanced academics with interdisciplinary opportunities and lots of music options at a small to medium school. Swarthmore was also on the list. She got in to two top 10: one ivy and one not. The top male(engineer) with slightly lower GPA (ranked 3rd) and also above 1550 got in to two ivies, one inside the T10 and one not. 
Bottom line talk to your high school but being female is not a boost. Asian female in Stem is particularly hard, just as Asian male is. Ours is white and so was the top male. maybe that helped though it is supposed to be race blind now. [/quote]

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