Is true that it is easier for girls to getting into top engineering school than boys, since there are fewer female student application for engineering?
If you look at MIT in total by gender, the male approval rate is was 5.2% and female was 11.4%. They end out with similar acceptance and enrolled by gender.
MIT’s reported acceptance rate is 5% (of 13,993 applicants) for males and 11% (of 6,254 applicants) for females.
Their yield is 81% for males and 70% for females
https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=mass+inst+tech&s=all&id=166683#admsns
Harvey Mudd has slightly higher rates of acceptance for women, too. But I think at both MIT & Mudd, the female pools are a bit self selecting for high stats and good STEM ECs.
Cornell engineering Accepted 6% males (580/9417) and 18% females (694/3817) last year
http://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/tableau_visual/admissions
Harvey Mudd accepted 10% males (284/2828) and 27% females (345/1250) last year.
https://www.hmc.edu/institutional-research/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2018/05/2017-18-CDS_complete.pdf
really only works in practice for schools like MIT and Cal tech where applicant total’s are skewed very heavily. Princeton has no problem having 85% of their math majors as male (as it has been for a long long time). I think other schools besides MIT/cal tech in reality it doesn’t really help since they don’t aim to have 50/50 mechanical engineers etc… Same goes for CS. Might be small bump at lets say CMU for CS but for Ivies not really. They’ll just over enroll females as other majors at the college.
I also bet they are really self-selecting.
I should have added that at schools with completely separate colleges (e.g. Cornell) where you apply as if applying to a different university that works as well with skewed numbers. I believe Princeton and some others like Brown, Harvard you are applying to the University as a whole.
Will girls applying for Mathematics major have better chance too?
It’s not better chances, per se. You still need to meet their full expectations. (And know what those are.) You’ve said she got mostly 4 scores on the AP tests. It will matter what courses those were. Her ECs will matter very much, depth and breadth. I dont see where you shared those.
There are so many more women applying in engineering and math, every year. Qualified, which is more than stats. The big push to just get more women in is much less of a tip than, say, 7 years ago.
Franklin Olin College has high favoritism to female applicants, because its a very tiny school,
with only mechanical, electrical, and computer science classes, and very few girls apply there.
The Miliary Academies (Navy, Army, Air Force, Coast Guard)
used to favor female applicants as well, I have not looked lately.
The Webb Institute on Long Island, I am sure girls get accepted at a much higher rate, it offers
a marine engineering degree, with a lot of mechanical and electrical engineering built into the degree,
and its got a stipend, for every student, I think full tuition, as I remember. Its on Long Island, NYC
http://www.webb.edu
Finally look at Cooper Union in New York City, girls will get in easier there as well,and every student
gets a half ride !
https://cooper.edu/welcome
She has pretty good EC STEM related. Coached middle school Mathcounts team for all 4 years in high school. the team got 1st and to 3rd place every year for Regional competition. President for the school math club. Tutored middle schools once a week for all four years. President of the Math Club in school, VP for the school Science Olympia team and Chinese Student Association. Win the 1st place regional and 3rd place in the state for Science Olympia. Wins many national and international dance competitions. Did summer intern and camps in science field every summer.
So what geography and size school does she prefer? Does she want a big city or small town? Math grades and scores matter most for engineering programs. Has she taken the AMC10 or AMC 12 math exam? Girls with good scores get into the very top engineering programs, if thats what she wants.
ECs matter more for private schools than large public programs. UIUC the public flagship in Central Illinois, has one of the top STEM degrees in the nation, (EE, Physics, CS, CE all ranked in top five in nation) and they will not care about her ECs, they will care about her grades and scores, especially math grades and scores. Ditto on any U of California campus, they have a formula out on the west coast, that I believe includes number of AP exams taken, or courses taken, but UC Berkeley is somewhat wholistic, meaning that they actually read the essays for a few minutes and look over other factors than just grades and scores.
True. But so far. OP’s been asking about Penn and there’s a post that seems to say a deferral at MIT.
OP, so other than stem, her only EC is dance? Working with younger kids isn’t quite it.
Please use some of the stem posters here to come up with safeties she can be proud of. And that your family can afford.
@anon145 just an FYI- when my daughter & I attended CS info. session @ CMU, they stated that their goal is 50-50 gender parity. If my memory is correct, they reported being close to that now.