<p>Sounds like my son’s field. By the way, he avoided all engineering classes. Unlike the OP’s daughter, his goals were not well-defined prior to college. It took him years to focus and define his direction.</p>
<p>Just an update from the OP. Here are my daughter’s final results:</p>
<p>Accepted:
Cornell - Computer Science under CAS
UCB - Cognitive Science
UCLA (Regents Scholar) - Computer Science and Linguistics
USC (Presidential Scholar) - Computer Science and Physics
UCSD - Computer Science
UCD - Computer Science
UCSB - Computer Science
UCI - Computer Science
Case Western (University Scholar) - Computer Science
CalPoly SLO - Computer Science</p>
<p>Waitlisted: Stanford, UPenn</p>
<p>Rejected: HYP</p>
<p>Overall, results is not that bad considering the results that we see this year. She’s happy she was accepted to UCLA ( her #1 UC). If she has to do it all over again, she probably applied EA to Yale or Princeton.</p>
<p>Amazing results- Cornell & UCB are top-10 programs. UCLA/SD/SB are very good programs as well.</p>
<p>Frankly Harvard/Yale do not have great programs, so if the objective was getting into a top CS program, those are not really big losses.</p>
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CWRU (overall) is not lopsided when it comes to male/female ratio 55/45 as it has the liberal arts college within.</p>
<p>It is so wonderful to read about a great student who put together a balanced list of colleges, had a realistic approach to the search process and had a successful conclusion. I’ll note that early in the thread, the OP commented that, despite his daughter’s quite impressive statistics, she had “No research and other high-profile ECs that I see typical of students accepted at top colleges. So it might be hard for her to be accepted @HYPMS.”</p>
<p>So that while she wasn’t accepted into HYPS, the eyes were wide open about this possibility – so that when it happened we’re not getting any whining about being “shut out.”</p>
<p>Your daughter sounds great, and congrats to her. Thanks for the update. Where is she going to go out of all these wonderful choices?</p>
<p>Awesome results. Congrats to her! </p>
<p>MIT and Caltech. I think it is the best bet for an Asian.</p>
<p>I don’t think any school gives a big boost to females. </p>
<p>“There are many students who have no exposure to engineering or even computer science due to lack of offerings in their high schools.”</p>
<p>Grrrrrrrr. These student never heard about internet and online classes? MOOC? Do they have electricity in their HSs? </p>
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<p>What is wrong with that? It seems we are in such a hurry to have high school kids take College classes.</p>
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My understanding - and others can correct me - is that the female students who apply are, on the average, far more qualified than the male students. To be very specific, almost all of the women who apply are really top students in science and math (they need that validation of high grades and test scores to go for it), while men who apply have a broader range of scores and grades. </p>
<p>That is somewhat true, but back when my oldest applied to MIT if I recall correctly they actually broke down M and F acceptance rates with SAT breakdowns. The female scores were slightly lower. Hope I’m remembering this correctly, but they’d done a study and found that women were outperforming men freshman year even with lower scores.</p>
<p>Wonderful and congrats to your D!</p>
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<p>This self-selection is true at MIT and Caltech, but not in general.</p>
<p>Just an update from the OP.</p>
<p>My daughter will be attending Cornell University this fall. </p>