<p>This has been puzzling me quite a bit lately. I was wondering about what the demographics of the engineering majors at Berkeley are. Race, age, and more specifically, sex. I would assume that far fewer females apply as engineering majors than males do. Would this mean it would be far easier for females to get accepted than males?</p>
<p>Oh, and FYI, I am already accepted to Berkeley as an Econ major.</p>
<p>I'd say that around 5% of the students in my upper division EECS classes have been female.</p>
<p>So, I'm assuming that being female does not make it far easier to get in.</p>
<p>Race? Even more disproportionately Asian-American than the rest of the Berkeley student population, which is already heavily Asian-American. I remember there were some engineering courses in which more students spoke Chinese than English as their first language.</p>
<p>haha.. they say the nicest bathrooms on campus are the girls' bathrooms in Soda Hall.. because they never get used...</p>
<p>There are usually fewer girls in engineering. I think that's why the acceptance rate for women at MIT is about 25%, whereas the acceptance rate for men is something like 15%. Could just be self-selective, though at my school a girl who's rather not fantastic got into Caltech.</p>
<p>Here's the ethnicity distribution for the colleges.</p>