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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hopkins premed, CMU SCS, Cornell engineering, are epitome of grinder schools.  Rigorous curriculum, harsh curve, cutthroat culture, a combination of these.[/quote]

Male-dominated programs with a lot of men who are [b]academically competitive with each other, sharp-elbowed, some social skills limitations because not very pro-social, intense interest in schoolwork but not in other types of campus activities, focus on getting high-paying or hard-to-get jobs.[/b][/quote]

:lol:  Guess you've "never met" any women who fit that description exactly.[/quote]

PP went to college in the 70s.[/quote]

+1. Dated observation[/quote]

From the CMU student newspaper in October:

https://the-tartan.org/2025/10/06/cmu-undergraduate-womens-enrollment-declines-across-colleges/

CMU undergraduate women’s enrollment declines across colleges
Daniel Rios
October 6, 2025

"In 2025, Carnegie Mellon University welcomed a cohort of 1,804 new undergraduate students at its Pittsburgh campus. Though the university’s overall population has 42.2 percent of students identify as women, the incoming undergraduate class in fall of 2025 had a historically low female enrollment of 38.8 percent. At certain colleges, the percentage was even lower..."

"The Census data showed growing gaps in gender diversity across all colleges except the College of Fine Arts and the interdisciplinary programs, the latter of which grew its overall headcount significantly."

"The gap was most severe at Carnegie Mellon’s highly-ranked School of Computer Science (SCS), where only 19.39 percent of all entering undergraduates were female, the lowest out of all of CMU’s undergraduate colleges, including the interdisciplinary programs.

The College of Engineering (CIT) had the second-lowest percentage of entering female students, with just 32.7 percent. Like SCS, CIT had a steady decline in new female students."

Hmmm.....sounds like a male-dominated grinder school to me....[/quote]

SCS is over 80% male…damn[/quote]

On r/cmu there are jokes about bringing back the "Dave:female student ratio" jokes of yesteryear.

That's funny to me because at my first post-MBA job, my boss asked me to get her a meeting with an executive named Dave.  There were 4 executives named Dave in the planning group. I had to wait to speak with her live so I could verify which one she wanted to meet with.[/quote]

Many years ago Goldman had more partners named John than female partners.[/quote]

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