<p>Using the search, liked what people were saying about female engineers being accepted pretty well. Liked the college advice people were giving here, very nice forum all in all.</p>
<p>Just a few advice tips, if possible. </p>
<p>I've gotten into UT in Austin, and it's really high ranked and seems very good. But see, I'm in Texas, and here it's like "eh, state school, nice engineering program" yet it was ranked higher than Cornell. I know rankings don't matter that much but, just...well. If it were (and it just might be) between Renssalaer, NYU Poly, Harvey Mudd, Cornell, UT, and Carnegie Mellon, and say that by some miracle I get the Gates scholarship, which would be good and why? I've visited CMU, RPI, and UT and liked 'em all in that order. I'm already for sure into the UT aerospace engineering school if I choose to go, if I go to Renssalaer or Cornell I'd be in aerospace as well. The others are between mechanical and computer (except HM). I like theater, would join that club at any school I go to (good reason of why I like CMU). Just, I don't know. It's bugging me and I can't speak to my parents about it since they don't really want me out of state too much and didn't graduate from high school. My friends aren't into engineering and the few that are are guys that just say "god...it's cause you're a girl..."</p>
<p>Which brings me to another question: how do you react to people that assume you only do so well because you're a girl in engineering? I mean, I don't doubt that some of the attention I get from colleges is because I'm a girl with "engineering" as my intended major. Still, I had the highest SAT score at my school on the first try. I'm good at math, one of the best in my class which is the hardest to take at the school. I'm asked for help on physics, I do good! I'm IB and my grades are decent so why do the guys keep saying "ah, cornell only pays attention to you because you're a girl"? So far, I just mess with the guys back, talk crap, all that, I'm good at it. But really, I'm close to kicking someone in the nuts so hard he becomes a girl and can no longer cry about being disadvantaged. We're all mexican in this school, technically they're minorities too.</p>
<p>um. a lot of people read my posts and PM me sometimes. and they always call me “man” or “bro” because I go to an engineering school and know my sh** I don’t deny it sometimes either; I just kind of accept that it comes as part of the package of happen a ‘gender-neutral’ username and an interest in math, tech, xkcd, gadgets, blowing stuff up, etc etc. actually… this is the first time I’ve mentioned that I’m female (hah). </p>
<p>On the flip side however, at an engineering college, you will notice that you will inevitably treated like you’re one of the guys. Even if you’re totally hot or whatever, at some point, they’ll all forget you’re a girl. It’s just not a part of the equation. Like, no one cares you’re a girl, you’re all normal, you all just need to study and survive this engineering education together.</p>
<p>I like theater and the arts too. Like a lot. But after a semester at NYU-Poly, I find that people who major outside of engineering are just being impractical and snotty. It’s like…so you want to psychoanalyze me, ok that’s chill; but I just hacked into your toaster… what now?</p>
<p>finally, congrats on all of your lovely accomplishments and good luck to you! :)</p>
<p>I’m a female in my sophmore year of electrical engineering. You should be really proud of yourself! I have a lot of admiration for girls who choose engineering. I don’t really like how people are always so surprised that a cute girl could be doing engineering. I bet if I told people I was a nursing major, no one would blink. But I guess it’s just because engineering is not a common major for girls. </p>
<p>I do get attention for being a girl, just because I think I stand out as the only girl in the class…like the professor will remember who I am. </p>
<p>I’d like to hear what other female engineers have to say in general :)</p>
<p>Cool! Like, this past summer I took this program with an engineering class (like…ENG 101) and physics at the community college. Just to get physics out of the way in summer and learn more about engineering. And it was fun! Like, I built and programmed a robot with a team of 2 others boys and we killed at a sumo-bot competition. And the guys were cool about it after the first week of them trying to hit on me.</p>
<p>I can deal with one of the guys. I don’t really act girly. Theater is the girliest thing I have and I’m a techie and stage manager.</p>
<p>Lucky-Grow thick skin. You don’t have to trash talk back because the guys will throw "you’re a girl " in your face, and can’t argue against that. Stop being so insecure. Your accomplishments are your own, you don’t need to justify them. They are jealous jerks. Don’t let them erode your self confidence, but you need to stop whining.</p>
<p>My computer science class had us do a lego robots project… I didn’t think it was advanced enough to be a challenge really. Not that this is on topic or anything…</p>
<p>Guys have ego’s, and it’s possible that they’re just messing about. Key is to keep confidence, ignore them. They don’t really matter to you anyway, because you know you’re intelligent enough to drop bombs on whatever college you plan to go to.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, that was way off topic. Yeah, guys have egos, but girls in engineering schools…you can see their egos from the moon; they KNOW the power they have over guys and they act like they do too haha</p>
<p>Well I can tell you right now that this likely isn’t going to change. There will always be someone who is going to say that the only reason you got something was because you’re girl. Engineering is still a guys club, and you are probably going to have to deal with similar issues when you go to college. </p>
<p>No one is going to care about your SATs or high school class load because most of your peers in college will be at the same level as you are. Guys and girls alike have to prove themselves all over again once they step into the college class room. Considering the quality of schools you got into, you are going up against a group of students where each one was a math/science all-star in high school. Just remember that those schools wouldn’t have accepted you if they didn’t think you could do the work.</p>
I don’t deny it sometimes either; I just kind of accept that it comes as part of the package of happen a ‘gender-neutral’ username and an interest in math, tech, xkcd, gadgets, blowing stuff up, etc etc. actually… this is the first time I’ve mentioned that I’m female (hah). </p>
and they act like they do too haha</p>