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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My girls are in public school as well.  I would say that there is an advantage in that they stand out from their peers.  At my kids' high school, only 5 out of 25 kids taking AP Physics C are girls.  That said, I think there are a lot of great schools for engineering and you're DD will be fine if they apply widely.  There are many excellent programs, including Olin, Harvey Mudd, UIUC, Purdue.

My DD has a 4.0 UW and 1550+ and 7 AP scores (taking 6 more this year) and her CC says that UMich OOS, UVA OOS, UCB OOS and UCLA OOS are all targets, not safeties.[/quote]
UMich, UVA, UCB, UCLA are reaches for all applicants, not targets.[/quote]

No, they are not, it depends on high school. For top males and females at our high school as well as the neighboring school, Umich UCB UCLA are targets . UVA is instate and is a safety for the very top. Every kid in the top 5% for more than 6 years has gotten into UVA, and all but one in the top 10%. 30-40% of applicants in the top5% get in to the other three OOS. They are targets. Certain ivies ED (cornell, columbia) in the past 2 cycles are targets for the very top. The very top usually try scea though and wait for RD for other ivies. [/quote]
No normal person defines schools with <10% acceptance rates as targets... except here at DCUM.[/quote]

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