“Coming off the heels of record-breaking admissions years, Carnegie Mellon University is experiencing another phenomenal year in 2018. In 2016, according to the university, the percentage of women in Carnegie Mellon’s computer science and engineering programs were more than double the national averages. In 2017, for the first time ever, the university enrolled more female undergraduates than male; additionally, the number of admitted students who chose to attend Carnegie Mellon spiked from 30 to 37 percent. This year, the number of applications Carnegie Mellon received skyrocketed by 19 percent, a record high for the school.” …
They’re really trying hard. From the 2017-18 CDS:
Percentage of men offered admission: 16.7%
Percentage of women offered admission: 31.2%
Almost twice as likely a woman will be admitted as a man.