<p>Let me preface this by saying I have zero idea if it's true or not.</p>
<p>My friend, who is applying to CMU's CFA, has told me that her private counselor said that girls have a significantly higher admissions boost than men here-- something like a 65% admission rate compared to 30%. Is there any fact to this? If it's true, is it because of the low girl:guy ratio at the school itself? I'm not sure what to believe. That number seems ridiculously high to me.</p>
<p>Yes, girls do get an admissions boost. I'm not sure about how much it helps for CFA, but in CIT and SCS, with the girl to guy ratio as low as 1:4 being a girl can offer a big boost.</p>
<p>1:4 just for clarification is probably just the applicant ratio. As far as I know, CMU has a 60:40 guy:girl student ratio, which is manageable.</p>
<p>I've applied to H&SS-- what about the boost there? I've been unable to find any statistics which break down male and female applicants to each college, or to CMU itself.</p>
<p>The male/female breakdown by college can be found in the factbook on CMU's website. Here is a link to latest one.
<a href="http://www.cmu.edu/ira/factbook/pdf/facts2008/2_Fact-Book_2007_08_Students_AdmissionsFYEnroll_Web-Version.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.cmu.edu/ira/factbook/pdf/facts2008/2_Fact-Book_2007_08_Students_AdmissionsFYEnroll_Web-Version.pdf</a></p>
<p>That's perfect! So it's only a 12% boost. Hmm...</p>