<p>I will focus on your D’s interest in math. If she is quite strong in this area, that could be her ticket to a lot of good things. The fact of the matter is that the colleges are still looking (at ALL levels) for females who are good at mathematics.</p>
<p>Just one example. My husband is a math professor at USC. They have just two women on faculty in the math dept, despite their efforts to hire more. USC is very keen on hiring more women faculty in STEM. Even though the math dept did not find a woman who’s strong to fill a current position they are hiring for In a specific field of math), they did find another woman post doc from MIT. The administration is willing to let them overfill their positions if they can hire her. They are that interested in fulfilling that kind of diversity in their faculty.</p>
<p>If her passion is in math, there are ECs she can do to strengthen her hand. There are math competitions of all kinds, on line math classes she can take (or dual enrollment classes at local colleges) and she could be a math peer tutor at her school. My son did all three of these things, in addition to some other ECs (water polo/swim team.) Besides taking on line classes in linear algebra and multivariable calculus, he also had 9 AP classes. He’s currently a freshman in the honors Integrated Science Program at Northwestern. That program would love to have more female applicants.</p>