Anonymous
09/06/2025 09:05
Subject: Easier for girls to get into top engineering schools?
720 is fine as long as the rest of the application looks great. Leadership, EC's, legitimate high school team sports etc. It can still make you stand out from the 800 score applicants that may lack the other things. Most schools are far from just the numbers especially if all they are seeing is high 700's or even 800 as the one poster was bragging about above.
Anonymous
09/06/2025 08:59
Subject: Easier for girls to get into top engineering schools?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Denied for in-state UVA, VT. Coming from FCPS. Female 720 SAT Math, AP Physics C, AP Chem, AP Calc BC, unweighted 3.8, President Science Honor Society, elected Homecoming Court, 2 Varsity Sports, Employed.
I think it's BS our country wants more female STEM professionals.
720 is very low. There are so many females who easily get 800 or close! DD is at an ivy, 800 math, all 5s in those plus phys1, Bio, more.
UVA may not require that but they can easily meet whatever female ratio they want by focusing on the females with 800s who do not get into Ivy JHU Duke engineering. Two of Ds high school friends who were also close to the top and high scoring are at UVA engineering after WL at higher ranked schools. They also thought the SAT math was easy. You underestimate how many top of the class brilliant stem girls who score 770+ are in high schools across the virginia, nevermind NY, MA, Bay Area,
Where does DD's IVY rank in Engineering? https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate?_sort=rank&_sortDirection=asc
Anonymous
09/06/2025 08:40
Subject: Re:Easier for girls to get into top engineering schools?
Anonymous wrote:A student with 720 math is certainly good enough to study engineering at schools outside the top 10 in engineering such as Virginia Tech or Maryland. However, the student likely won't be consistently getting A's in their engineering classes, especially classes that are test-heavy.
Aside: Many engineering classes are graded on a curve. Unlike some majors, Engineering grade curves often set the median below 3.0. So engineering GPA tend to be lower than non-engineering.
Engineering tests sometimes are silly difficult. I too 4 semesters of Calculus and remember Calculus classes where an A meant 50% correct and the minimum passing grade was 25% correct.