female science /math girls

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>Points:</p>

<p>-I didn't say anything about the asian question and don't want to get into it. There's more sides/issues on that one. This is the female question thread.</p>

<p>-What would I do if I got in? It depends where else I'd get in. If I don't get into a school IMHO definitely better than MiT, I'd seriously have to consider factor such as whether I wanna go to a school with around 70% of engineers. I'd hope to go to the admitted students program, though, and I'd take up the t-shirt offer if theeleet did the same :) . Still, I hope theeleet didn't apply just for kicks.</p>

<p>-Different ip's and different people: Just imagine how queer it would be if someone got several IP's just to post under different names on this BBS.</p>

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<p>Anybody care to take a shot at reconciling the apparent contradiction?</p>

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<p>whoa this probably isn't it, but you did just say...."on this BBS"!</p>

<p>You <em>typically</em> dial into a BBS, meaning no IP tracing! (CC is not a BBS)</p>

<p>you must be old-school to even use the term BBS! Whenever I think of a BBS I get flash backs of swapping files off lighting fast 56k modems...</p>

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<p>My school district uses a BBS that used the whole dial-in system until 3-4 years ago, I guess. But since it's been called "the BBS" since like the beginning on time, we still refer to it that way. So I guess its old school but it's also habit. =)</p>

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<p>BBS has died out. :(</p>

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<p>MIT wants better balance. So for a female (see poll below) MIT is your best chance for an elite program, despite its ranking as the toughest school to get into:</p>

<p>The PR top 20 "Toughest Schools to Get Into"
this year are:</p>

<p>1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 Princeton University
3 California Institute of Technology
4 Yale University
5 Harvard College
6 University of Pennsylvania
7 Stanford University
8 Swarthmore College
9 Duke University
10 Columbia University - Columbia College
11 Georgetown University
12 Brown University
13 Pomona College
14 Amherst College
15 Dartmouth College
16 University of California-Berkeley
17 Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
18 Harvey Mudd College
19 Emory University
20 University of Virginia</p>

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<p>Hrm I always thought it was easier to get into princeton than caltech!</p>

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<p>After ED, there are 15,700 applications remaining for less than 600 slots at Princeton.</p>

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<p>Princeton has such a low acceptance rate because they very VERY aggresively recruit applicants. Princeton offers 100% grant money to all admittees needing FinAid, that and the automatic prestige of the Princeton name make it a pretty arttractive school to apply to on a whim. Students who apply to CalTech are much more "self-selecting" and are much less likely to have applied just for the heck of it. It's really best to take these rankings with a grain of salt.</p>