<p>~cries~</p>
<p>lol</p>
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<p>The purpose was to point out that many of these schools are interested in increasing the female populations of certain disciplines that are historically male-dominated. From my school last year, the (only) two students who went to Siemens regionalsguyswere both rejected from Stanford, Harvard, Yale, and the like, but, of the seven or so semifinalists, two were girls, and one went to Harvard and the other went to MIT. And all of the girls I know of from my school, any year, who have been recognized by either organization are at an Ivy/MIT/Caltech.</p>
<p>This trend is real. My anecdote is only one case, but it can be traced back at least five years in my memory; my school has vast Intel/Siemens participation yearly.</p>
<p>wow, that school sent two kids to rsi in 99. THATS craaazy</p>
<p>Don--Ahh, I didn't see that you were getting at a sex thing. Sorry. That's interesting. Not sure if it's true. My school's experience probably isn't much to speak of for this issue. Thus far we've had one Intel finalist (2002) who got into Duke ED, before Intel. Male. Our next batch of STS success was in 2004 with four semis, but all were girls anyway so there's no point of comparsion :p One went to MIT and another to Duke (then one Tufts and one Sophie Davis). The next year (last year) we had five semis. Two girls (Vandy and Brown) and three guys (Cooper Union, Wash U, and Dartmouth), so I don't see any college gender bias there but, small sample. And this year we had four semis. One got into U Penn, one got into SUNY Binghamton but may or may not go there, and then my friend Sara and I have yet to be accepted anywhere :p</p>
<p>I'm kind of disappointed there are so few women who want to get into natural science & engineering (except for biology). I think women and men have similar aptitudes for success in science & engineering, but must women just don't seem to want to try that sort of field. I'm not sure if it's cultural or biological. I believe the former, but I who can tell?</p>
<p>I don't know, the number is growing. I saw quite a number of women (and some damn fine ones at that!) at the conference last week. Almost all were very young, though. The stats confirm that: the number should be climbing to near the 50% mark very soon.</p>
<p>That's pretty cool. I don't think it's climbing as quickly in comp sci and other engineering fields though. I know a lot of male classmates and one female classmate interested in engineering. Of course, that's a small and biased sample.</p>
<p>In my school, it's definitely "uncool" for a guy to like English and writing. History is fine, since it involves wars. I think it's accepted for girls to like science, but girls tend not to admit (?) liking math. </p>
<p>But, my school's tiny.</p>
<p>Hmmmm... at my school, highest level math and physics classes are are favored (and often dominated) by males this year. English and other liberal arts and humanities courses seem fairly even, maybe slightly favored by girls. Higher level bio tends to be mostly girls. Computer programming is almost entirely boys. Drama is almost entirely girls & gay guys. Dunno about everything else.</p>
<p>The highest classes at my school this year are mostly girls, but that's just because there happen to be more "smart" girls than guys this year. The interest factor remains, though. There are only two guys in all of AP English, and two girls in BC Calc, though there are only six kids taking it at all. Computer programming classes are male-dominated. The geeky guys all program for fun. haha</p>
<p>OK, as someone who programs for fun, I seriously take offense to that. :p</p>
<p>Geek. :p</p>
<p>Actually... I do it too. Ha.</p>
<p>Haha. I am not surprised at all. </p>
<p>I take programming, but I quit the second the bell rings.</p>
<p>haha, had to dig into my subscriptions to find this old thread. I just got a likely letter very much like the one linked to here (no, it's not from Harvard, and yes, it's from a school that's nearly as amazing :p) so, corranged and PorSK, I got one :D Not sure if I'm allowed to say where it's from in such a public forum so I won't but, suffice it to say I'm very happy to know I'm accepted to college ;)</p>
<p>SWEEEEEEEEEETTTTT</p>
<p>congrats!!!</p>
<p>Why wouldn't you be allowed?</p>
<p>Tennis--Thanks!! :)</p>
<p>I don't know. I'll ask them about it, maybe it's alright, I'm just afraid that this is one of those less-announced things that they expect you to not blab about on the world wide web. So I figure I stay just behind that line by not saying the school's name ;)</p>
<p>hahaha. I think its quite obvious</p>
<p>Hey, jcr, did you get one too? ;)</p>
<p>You say "nearly as amazing," so I'll make my assumptions, and considering the assumption that you got a rare likely letter from a school like that, it's funny that you were deferred Harvard EA. I'm sure you've already thought about it, but if I had to guess I'd say you're looking good for the Harvard RD round. If I may ask, does this change anything? Would you still automatically go to Harvard if you got in, or is there a bit of a dilemma now? If you don't want to put it on a public forum, then PM me if you don't mind. I've been following your posts for a while and it's great to know that you've gotten some good news. I'm interested to see where you're going from here.</p>
<p>Congratulations! :)</p>