A Moral Issue

Colleges and Universities A-Z Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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<p>I am a female, and this, I would imagine, means something to RPI. But after thoroughly trudging through the user stats here, I am concerned about the gravity of gender on my admissions decision. I’d call myself well qualified in most areas that colleges deem essential, but my SAT scores are certainly not up to RPI’s standards. So, was I accepted before males with stunning ability and boastful scores because I am a female? Yes, I believe so. And if that’s true, can I enroll as a freshman at RPI with no moral qualms about not having earned my placement, with no guilt for taking the place of someone more enthusiastically qualified? Or should I swallow that because this is an opportunity that I didn’t earn but can accept and utilize?</p>

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<p>just ask yourself, “what would 50.01% of the world do?” and the answer is, “they would take all opportunities and scrape leftovers moral or not.” Besides, RPI doesn’t instantly accept unqualified girls because of the ratio. Chill out, you got in. i know girls who did not get in even with ED, so that should bring you some ease of heart :smiley:
and btw SAT is just a rough estimate of skill, not total.</p>

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<p>EJSmith – I really don’t think you have a moral issue…and if you do doesn’t RPI have a similar moral issue? If you are truly unqualified to succeed than RPI would have a moral issue for setting you up for failure.</p>

<p>Were you accepted into the College of Engineering? If so than RPI is just doing what other schools are doing — look at this link for Cornell. They accepted about 45% of the girls who applied to the College of Engineering, 34% of girls who applied to the College but less than 18% of the girls who applied to the College of Arts and Sciences.</p>

<p>If you work hard you will succeed…no moral issue to worry about in my opinion.</p>

<p><a href=“http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000003.pdf[/url]”>http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000003.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>There’s much more to a student than SAT scores. Grades, activities and recommendations, courses taken, AP scores all add in to fill out a more complete picture. SAT scores are one small data point. Many people don’t do as well as they theoretically should on SATs based on grades etc. Hopefully RPI recognizes that. All schools aim to admit students who are capable of the work. They don’t want dropouts. Most schools will take good grades, recommendations, challenging course work, etc. over simply stellar SATs which could imply a lazy student.</p>

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<p>Go…
work hard…
prove they were right to admit you _ I bet they were</p>

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<p>Let’s face it, these days colleges are full of boys who are far less qualified than girls. But most girls don’t want to go to school without boys. So, maybe engineers feel the same way.</p>

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<p>lol engineers aren’t human, what are you talking about endicott?</p>

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<p>EJ-
Like some others said, more goes into acceptance than just your SAT scores. While you seem to know that you were accepted over “more qualified” male applicants based on SAT scores you also could have been accepted over “more qualified” female applicants based on SAT scores alone. Do not let yourself forget that you still have to be qualified to be accepted- and you obviously are. </p>

<p>So- I agree with Theorymom. If you can- GO, work hard, and do well :)</p>