<p>Hi!</p>
<p>I am applying to WUSTL Early Decision, and am filling out the application. I would like to double major in biology (neuroscience track) and computer science. On the application, I have to indicate a primary school of interest- so either Arts & Sciences or Engineering. Then, I can select my major within each school.</p>
<p>Because I am a girl, would it beneficial for me to select Engineering and Computer Science as my first choice, with Arts & Sciences and Biology as my second? Or does it not matter?</p>
<p>I am also indicating the Pre-medicine track!</p>
<p>Thank you :)</p>
<p>Typically, CS is mostly male, while biology is mostly female. Whether that, and the popularity of the majors relative to departmental capacity regardless of gender, matters for WUStL admissions is something you may want to ask on the WUStL forum.</p>
<p>Yes, it would be beneficial to select Engineering and Computer Science. Obviously WUStL is a very selective school, no mater what, but there is a big movement virtually everywhere to bridge the gender gap in STEM and especially comp sci.</p>
<p>Only if you have the ECs to backup.</p>
<p>@drgoogle one does not necessarily need an EC related to their major…</p>
<p>I mean a lot of people are comp sci majors with no such experience</p>
<p>yes, but there are many girls who just abuse the reverse-discrimination present in STEM fields for women, and just switch majors once they are into the school</p>
<p>@foolish true!!! Thanks for saying that</p>
<p>@sallymeno11 make sure there is some indication in your activities and summer plans that you are interested in computer science. </p>
<p>That’s why there is always an essay of why engineering/computer science.</p>
<p>I dont think wustl has any supplements</p>
<p>Yeah there are no supplements. I do have something to indicate my interest in computer science for sure!</p>
<p>I am actually really into computational neuroscience, and while wustl doesnt have that major, i can do the teo separately then bring them together on my own</p>
<p>I’ll take advantage of the no supplement. But I think when there is no such thing to distinguish then it probably doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>I am going to bump this for some more thoughts! Thank you so much</p>
<p>@DrGoogle. It may matter. It really depends on whether a school admits by department or not, though. I heard that at Stanford, being a girl in engineering/CS doesn’t give you a bump. At UIUC, it’s pretty clear that girls who were much inferior academically were being let in to their (now competitive) CS program in Engineering while non-URM guys with better stats were rejected. Yale (or some Ivy) wanted to bump up their number of female engineers.</p>
<p>To the OP: why WashU if you’re interested in computational neuroscience? There are schools offering that major, after all. Cornell and USC come to mind. There are more. In any case, applying for CS in Engineering can’t hurt.</p>
<p>@PurpleTitan</p>
<p>I know USC has it. And I’m applying there.</p>
<p>I don’t like the cut throat environment at Cornell. And to be honest, I don’t really want to go to an Ivy League School.</p>
<p>I fell in love with WashU. The campus, the people, and even location. I’m also going pre-med, and there is no better school for pre-med that is pretty cooperative (and not cut throat)</p>
<p>Purple, I was saying it maynot matter to Washu because it doesn’t have the supplement.</p>