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[quote=Anonymous][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. [b]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,[/b] thus they can easily have the similar admit rates for females and males and get the ratio they desire.  …Ours is white and so was the top male. maybe that helped though it is supposed to be race blind now. [/quote]

It parallels what ours has experienced. D2023 is at an ivy in engineering and almost every one of her female friends was their school Val or Sal with every stem AP on their resume. The ivy had a welcome to engineering event for freshman parents and they mentioned highest % females in the application pool and noted many majors within engineering are 60% female now, but the overall is 42%. They actually said we no longer have to worry not enough females apply we have plenty. They said their grad school remains 60% male for engineering[/quote]

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