<p>Here is a good article about why students drop science and engineering majors:</p>
<p><a href=“Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It’s Just So Darn Hard) - The New York Times”>Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It’s Just So Darn Hard) - The New York Times;
<p>For a girl who isn’t sure she wants to be surrounded by engineering nerds all the time even if she is thinking of engineering or a science major she could consider the colleges that have engineering programs that represent a minority of the students on campus. Tufts, Union, Bucknell, Lafayette, U. Rochester are the ones that come to mind as well as some Ivy league schools like Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth etc…</p>
<p>Personally, I kinda like engineering/science nerds ;-)</p>