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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I am seeing and hearing is all high stat students are applying to the same schools..

Michigan
Chicago
Cornell
Vandy
Duke
CMU
Penn
MIT
UVA

Boys girls, public private high schools , engineering, pre law, pre med, everyone I know is literally applying to these schools..all high stats.[/quote]

At one child's private as well as my other kid's stem-magnet public, we can get data on where females v males apply: males interested in stem apply to MIT, CMU and the big state schools much more than females. Females interested in stem apply to Ivies, Chicago(they have molecular engineering), Duke as much or more than the males and most top stem females do not apply to UCB Mich GT. We toured every ivy but one as well as MIT. All but one of them had female tourguide for the interested-in-stem applicants.
There are just so many top females interested in Engineering in our area: there have been robotics teams half female for at least 6 years and there are multiple girls who code groups. The last four valedictorians have all wanted Engineering, four have been women. Valedictorians are easy to pick out on SCOIR which narrows by year: The SATs were all 1550+. The women getting admitted to engineering at the ivy-level are not any level lesser than the guys. For whatever reason, the females tend to prefer the non-tech-y schools, they want engineering within a liberal arts environment, they want to be able to continue theater, orchestra, singing that they did in high school. That type of mixing of interests is much harder to get at a super tech or large public. For any slight female boost, target GT, Mich, CMU, UIUC. The very top females often leave them off the list.
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Your view is DMV-centric.  I posted upthread about Michigan.  It is very much in-demand by our top female in-state engineering candidates for obvious reasons.  And there are a lot of females pursuing engineering because the biggest feeder county (similar to MoCo) has lots of dual STEM career parents.  Which makes for mom role models.

At Michigan, there are a ton of extracurriculars. University theater and some music ensembles are nearly professional so not very accessible but there is marching band, a student pops orchestra, a gamelan, amateur theater clubs, quidditch, two Model UN teams, multiple fantastic a capella groups, etc. I don't think there are any issues with attracting female applicants who want to continue extracurriculars.  Maybe the options are just trickier to research if you don't know the school well.[/quote]

It's also an easier Public for admission OOS then say Georgia Tech which is at 9% which also admits a much smaller class. Michigan admits over twice as many freshman.  Georgia Tech's breakdown for for last class for admissions Male 55% Females 45% (large majority engineering majors)
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