<p>would being a girl in AP Calc w/strong Sat I and IIs in math be a huge advantage for someone applying to an ivy league enginnering program?</p>
<p>i heard Ivy League schools aren't the best Eng. schools.
[ I mean a public school like Penn State is ranked above Harvard in engineering]</p>
<p>but does being female make a difference in admissions for engineering colleges?</p>
<p>Yes, it absolutely makes a difference.</p>
<p>I presume, with the fact that males dominate the engineering field colleges would like to have more females majoring in engineering so, colleges favor females over males.</p>
<p>First off, engineering rankings don't include a whole lot of ivy league universities. Do consider that ivy league universities aren't the sterling standard for engineering programs that they are for most programs, and in fact, a lot of the ivies don't even have engineering programs.</p>
<p>And by the by... colleges like to <em>encourage</em> woman to go into engineering, but please don't make the mistake of thinking that an engineering program would admit an unqualified woman over a qualified man. Being a woman gives you about the same advantage in engineering admissions as having a peculiar talent, or something. Just because you've won piano competitions doesn't mean that a college is going to overlook acadmic deficiencies and admit you to their program over someone without those academic deficiencies.</p>
<p>It makes a difference, but it doesn't make as big a difference as I think some people think it does...</p>
<p>It certainly helps, provided that your credentials qualify you for the program in the first place. In other words, if it comes down to you and a similarly qualified male applicant, the spot would probably go to you. But make no mistake, like aibarr said, if you are not qualified, don't expect to be admitted.</p>
<p>/off topic
aibarr what does your name mean? Just curious</p>
<p>/off topic
It's amazingly, incredibly boring... but it offers me endless amusement seeing people get driven crazy as to what an "aibarr" is. It's my first initial, my middle initial, and my last name.</p>
<p>it's strange...at my tech school the ratio of girls to guys in engineering in the freshman class went down this year...about 40 of 450...and that probably counts some of the biology majors and stuff...whatever, it's low.</p>
<p>you'd think it was going up, but I guess not.</p>
<p>In my architectural engineering class (50 people), there's 4 girls...so, yeah, they're rare and in high demand in engineering.</p>
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And by the by... colleges like to <em>encourage</em> woman to go into engineering, but please don't make the mistake of thinking that an engineering program would admit an unqualified woman over a qualified man. Being a woman gives you about the same advantage in engineering admissions as having a peculiar talent, or something. Just because you've won piano competitions doesn't mean that a college is going to overlook acadmic deficiencies and admit you to their program over someone without those academic deficiencies.
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It's a hook. It will give an advantage where one was not previously. It's not an excessively large hook, but it definitely is.</p>
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It's a hook. It will give an advantage where one was not previously. It's not an excessively large hook, but it definitely is.
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<p>That's what I said. So is being a pianist. So is being a nationally-ranked solitaire player. So is raising pigeons. It might be used as a tie-breaker, all else being equal... but only if all else is <em>equal</em>.</p>
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That's what I said. So is being a pianist. So is being a nationally-ranked solitaire player. So is raising pigeons. It might be used as a tie-breaker, all else being equal... but only if all else is <em>equal</em>.
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We agree then. :)</p>
<p>i wouldnt call myself unqualified w/ 740 SAT I, 760 SAT II and a 4.0</p>
<p>If you don't mind hard work, cold winters and a beautiful campus, Cornell. We don't have a lot of your stats, but with the little that we have I would think that you would get in. A great engineering school.</p>
<p>It probably helps--
here are cornell's admission statistics: <a href="http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000003.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000003.pdf</a>
Girls applying to engineering have an almost 50% acceptance rate, compared to 30% of guys.
For a girl who likes math and science, it makes sense to apply to engineering in part because of the admissions boost. You can always give it a try and then see whether or not you like it. That's how I see it, at least, as a girl applying to engineering schools.</p>
<p>why would you want to go to an ivy for engineering? that seems silly.</p>
<p>if that is what you want... ivy status, please go for it.</p>
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why would you want to go to an ivy for engineering? that seems silly.
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agree. If I had impressive stats, I would go for schools like MIT, Caltech or Stanford...for engineering, not ivy.
"ivy status", that seem to be the thing most people want, even including engineering students......</p>
<p>ivy status means nothing to me unless someone gets their phd in a pure science from an ivy. i'm not only talking about ivy status in its importance to me, but when i meet someone (a scientist or engineer) and they go to harvard or yale the first thing i think about is pretension and how they could have gotten a much better education else-where. </p>
<p>basically, i'm crazy. i have the preconceived notion that many of the people who go for undergraduate ivy leagues are fakes. but that's just me and i know a lot of people disagree with that.</p>
<p>In Engineering the Ivy name adds very little to a career, I believe. The only exception would be Cornell, but that is because of the Engineering strength.</p>
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<p>And to an extent, Princeton!</p>
<p>also extent, U PENN.</p>