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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, and it's a good way to game the system. DS & his gf wanted to go to the same school. She applied as an engineering student & was accepted even though her stats weren't as good as DS'. She switched majors after first semester to what she really wanted. [/quote]

For similar stars, my DD had significant advantage when it came to engineering admissions. There are only 15% girls who qualify for AIME. For a girl having AIME is a huge advantage but for boys it does not mean much. For Math, Comp Sc and Engineering it is much tougher for boys to get into top places but the girls who get in are good but would have had a tougher time getting in if they were boys. Only place girls don't have an advantage is in biological sciences and related engineering fields. After going through the process, my son advised his sister (few years younger) to apply for mechanical engineering and coached her to get to AIME. She had a far better outcome than him.[/quote]

My DD was a TJ grad, 4X AIME qualifier, > 4.5 GPA as of Junior year, 1590 SAT, had taken advanced math (mulitivar, linear, diff eq) & CS (artificial intl, machine learning) courses. She did not get into CMU or cornell or princeton for Computer Science. She was not the only one, a couple of her friends too were in the same boat. All I can say is, it does not help being a girl in elite schools for competitive majors. Some may game the system (both girls & boys) by applying to less popular major, gain admission and then change. But you cannot generalize this to girls having preferential treatment in ALL of engg schools.[/quote]

Lol. Sure.[/quote]

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