Note that Wisconsin data supplied indicates that the women out perform the men across the ENGINEERING fields. Is this performance more wide spread than Wisconsin?
However, the combination of the extra summer session and the 3.5 technical GPA weed-out should push Wisconsin down on the desirability list. The extra summer session means that the standard time to finish chemical engineering there is more than 4 academic years or 8 semesters, which many consider to be undesirable due to extra cost.
@retiredfarmer, I don’t know. That’s the most granular data I’ve seen on that and haven’t really looked beyond that.
As I said though, from what I have seen from my D2, ChemE capstone is all consuming. Having a dedicated summer to do it in an all consuming way may be less stressful and more satisfying than trying to do it simultaneously with 3 or 4 other classes.
I don’t agree that it necessarily moves it down in desirability. I think that’s the OP’s call.
Was looking at data on retention by gender in engineering at one university over a ten year period. For eight of the ten years, women had better retention rates than the men. They tied retention rates for two of the ten years. This is of particular interest as some STEM universities have been criticized for the higher acceptance rate of women over men. This particular university accepted about 53% of women vs 38% for men this past year.
Well, judging by retention, they appear to be favoring the better performing applicants!
I digress, but will pick this up on another thread after checking more data.