Sex discrimination in Hard Sciences?

<p>This might indicate that a University can admit women into the toughest programs, maintain its sterling reputation, and graduate a class that is richer and more diverse than Harvard ever could.</p>

<p>They don't justify anything. Things happen, numbers decrease and it isn't always a result of discrimination. MIT can admit female applicants that are less qualified than their male counterparts. On a scale of 1-100, if a extremely qualified applicant was a 75 and a qualified one was 50, MIT could admit 100 women of 60 caliber over 100 men of 100 caliber and still have a great engineering class. It doesn't mean they are blindly choosing the most qualified applicants regardless of gender. MIT gives a huge advantage to female applicants. That is unfair and discriminatory.</p>

<p>Patrick, the admissions committe at Harvard discriminates all the time: when they admit the less qualified legacy, the less qualified son/daughter of big donor, the less qualified athlete, the less academically qualified artist, the less academically qualified person who somehow seems unique, the less qualified son/daughter of a big name politician, the less qualified son/daughter of the foriegn digntary. </p>

<p>Actually, if you go just by the numbers--the SAT and GPA-- and took just the 1700 highest performers, about 75 to 80% of last years class would have been rejected.</p>

<p>It's all a judgement call. Why pick on Women in Sciences?</p>

<p>You still havn't (and can't) prove that women are actually picked on in sciences.</p>

<p>Only the admissions committee knows for sure.</p>

<p>Yep. :)</p>

<p>And entering the obligatory 10+ characters to complete the message...</p>

<p>Patrick, I saw your message on the CalTech Board. Here's a recommendation just for you.</p>

<p>My brother was admitted to CalTech and every other school he applied to. He had great grades, SATs and APs like you. He did not conduct any formal research in any regular research setting BUT he was the original mad scientist doing chemistry experiments with rocket fuels, building electrical contraptions like tesla coils, using gieger counters to measure radiation, building fm radio transmitters, etc, etc. Almost all of these experiments found their way to to his High School teachers--he wanted to show his chemistry teacher his chemistry experiments, he showed other experiments to his Physcis teacher, others to his Calc teacher. The teachers LOVED it and my brother loved having an audience. To make a long story short, when these teachers wrote up their recommendation letters they all talked about the really neat independent research projects he did on his own, without supervision and not for a grade. I think that impressed CalTech a lot, that he was so hands-on, so curious and so independent.</p>

<p>Something like this might work for you, so do stuff and share it with your teachers after class. Good luck.</p>

<p>PS, in the end, my brother went to Stanford. Put S on your list, he loves it there.</p>

<p>itsallgood, my brother was Class of '01 at Stanford. :) Stanford is, right now at least, my first choice by a pretty wide margin. I spent a month there this past summer and loved it. That is a good idea about doing some outside of school experiments. I do all kinds of crazy stuff my chem teacher would love.</p>

<p>I would really rather go to Stanford as it would just be a better atmosphere and fit for me, personally. I could fit anywhere, but (what probably happens to everyone) I spent some time at Stanford and could just see myself there. And the good news is, the only senior in the program got accepted EA to Stanford this year which means there is hope for the rest of us!</p>

<p>Thanks for the tip, itsallgood!</p>

<p>Here is a link I found that is quite good: <a href="http://darwin.baruch.cuny.edu/faculty/guyot/index.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://darwin.baruch.cuny.edu/faculty/guyot/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Edit: I don't know what that first link was...I've never been to the site so if it was something bad, realize I didn't know what it was.</p>

<p>...maybe i should go into the humanties...=)</p>

<p>humanities...lol (didn't even realize i spelt it wrong! bad spelling = no future in eng = no humanities ...><)</p>