So the title is pretty self-explanatory, does being a girl really increase the chances of admission? and if yes, then at what schools?
here are my stats: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/18663504#Comment_18663504
thanks
It really depends on the school, but not really anymore. As a female math/CS major myself, I’ve seen more and more girls becoming interested in and pursuing CS.
There is some advantage for girls applying to engineering at many schools. With your current stat, you may want to try Purdue, for instance. After you entered the first year engineering program, you may declare major by the end of freshmen year or early sophomore.
Not as much as people on CC make you believe.
You would be best to apply to schools where your stats are a fit. At most it would be a very slight advantage.
Ok, thanks so much for the reality check guys! 
There does remain some advantage at most schools, yes. Not a game changer, but a slight advantage.
Advantage at the all-male schools, but check the tuitions at those schools.
You may actually find out the different admission rate by gender for some schools. Many engineering schools do have a higher admission rate for female applicants (not for Stanford though) while at the same time female applicants tend to have slightly stronger stat in average.
Ok so my first choice school is Georgia Tech, and its 67% male, so will being a female with my stats help me even though I am out of state? @billcsho @happy1 @“aunt bea” @marvin100
I just really want to go to Georgia Tech! 
I don’t work in GA Teach admissions so I don’t know…my guess is that it would be as I stated above, it could be a slight help but you would need to be academically qualified for the school to get admitted.
The thing that it will give you at places like Georgia Tech is the increased chance that a tired application reader. with a big stack of apps to read through, will slow down a bit and read your application that little bit more carefully. It won’t make up for not having the other pieces- it won’t bump a too-much-too low SAT / GPA, for example- but that little bit of slowing down is huge: it gives you the chance to shine through in your essays, for the adcomms reader to read your recs a little more carefully, get a better sense of you as a candidate, etc.
Besides admission bias, some schools offer most scholarships to female students in order to have a higher yield. So for the same stat admitted to the same engineering school, female student may see additional advantage.
This might be one year lagged data:
Georgia Tech
Overall Admission Rate 41% of 17,669 applicants were admitted
Women 50% of 5,355 applicants were admitted
Men 37% of 12,314 applicants were admitted
@nimbooda14 , here’s a list of several popular schools where there’s an admission rate advantage for female appicants:
https://college-kickstart.com/blog/item/colleges-where-female-applicants-have-an-edge
The list is dominated by schools strong in STEM fields, which bodes well for you 
@cbound88 omg thank you so much, this link is actually VERY helpful and encouraging! and I see Georgia tech there in the 4th place so not too bad!
I think it is a reasonable idea to look at this data to figure out where you might have an edge as a female applicant.
However, there are a couple of things you need to keep in mind about those numbers:
- For some schools, the female applicants may well be more qualified than the males, so some part of the advantage may be because of that.
- Females may be applying in higher numbers to programs that have higher admissions rates than the male applicants, which also might be influencing the numbers.
So, the advantage may not be quite as large as that list linked above might lead you to suspect.
I’d agree with this, but in my experience, there does remain some advantage for most programs.