<p>You're probably going to find more female grad students in a public school since every public seems to have the same ratio of men to women (most of the time more women) as apposed to somewhere like Caltech lol.</p>
<p>any california school besides berkeley and caltech.</p>
<p>That's not entirely true. A lot of girls base part of their college decisions on location. They wouldn't want to be stuck in a rural cow town rather than a beautiful place like Santa Barbara. </p>
<p>Check out college prow ler. They rank the girls, dining, weather, etc and it sounds pretty accurate (i wouldn't use it for rankings of academics, though lol).</p>
<p>cornell is a rural cow town. It is pretty good.</p>
<p>if i had a choice btwn Stanford, Gatech and Cornell which would you recommend (in terms of girls of course). ? I haven't taken the GREs yet but i think my marks are competative for these schools.</p>
<p>Wow, is this thread for real?</p>
<p>I like how this thread is started by the same guy who started "How can I get a girlfriend in electrical engineering?" =]</p>
<p>Chill out Casanova. Just go to a school in an urban area if that is your interest.</p>
<p>Wait a second, is the OP an EE undergrad major right now? And you're applying for chemical engineering grad school? I hope the reason for the switch isn't because there are more girls in chemE than in EE... That would just be... pathetic. I'm sorry, but it is.</p>
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<p>Wow, that explains a lot, actually.</p>
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That would just be... pathetic. I'm sorry, but it is.
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<p>And kind of depressing, too... OP, you need to find another strategy for meeting women. Do you have any friends with... well... social skills? Can you have them give you suggestions?</p>
<p>Alright, lemme help ya out in schools thermo1. If you want a school with great engineering and best looking girls I recommend UT-Austin. Its chemical engineering is tops and Playboy rated the school #1 in best looking girls. Best of luck to ya!</p>
<p>The corporate adage "never fish off the company dock" applies to grad school as well. Nothing wreck havoc on a group project, lab partnership or other work environment then sexual tension or the baggage left from a breakup. Look for hookups outside of your work environment.</p>
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The thing I hated about grad school was that even though I had a boyfriend at home (who is now my husband), EACH of my close male friends ended up trying to get me to go on a date with them.
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Ummm, that's seriously what you hated? That's just male biology, nothing more or less.</p>
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<p>Well, I hated other things about grad school. Don't get me wrong; I was stranded in a cornfield for two years.</p>
<p>Male biology or no, I'll admit that it's sweetly flattering the first three times that a guy would ask if I was interested in going to a movie, and I'd let him down gently. Then it happened with three or four more friends. Then it ended up happening with all the guys who spent significant amounts of time with me. And then I got paranoid (though it's been pointed out to me that it's not paranoia if they <em>are</em> out to get you). It's like all your friends have ulterior motives, and that makes things really uncomfortable, and skeeves you out pretty significantly. I've heard this from a lot of grad S&E women, so I'm apparently not the only nerd-magnet out there. It's pretty much the same for anyone in both an engineering department and a skirt.</p>
<p>Did they all know you already had a bf? If not, then I don't see why you should be paranoid. haha. I would be flattered for the most part, even past the first three. It's not every day an engineer meets another pretty engineering girl.</p>
<p>But, if they all knew you had a bf then those guys are really jerks. haha. Either that or they're desperate.</p>
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Male biology or no, I'll admit that it's sweetly flattering the first three times that a guy would ask if I was interested in going to a movie, and I'd let him down gently. Then it happened with three or four more friends. Then it ended up happening with all the guys who spent significant amounts of time with me. And then I got paranoid (though it's been pointed out to me that it's not paranoia if they <em>are</em> out to get you). It's like all your friends have ulterior motives, and that makes things really uncomfortable, and skeeves you out pretty significantly. I've heard this from a lot of grad S&E women, so I'm apparently not the only nerd-magnet out there. It's pretty much the same for anyone in both an engineering department and a skirt.
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And that's the difference between male and female biology right there. Men (single, usually) see women, appraise them instantly, and try to increase their odds in getting with them. That <em>is</em> male biology. Nothing to be surprised about.</p>
<p>aibarr, you should look up ladder theory sometime.</p>
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<p>Really? But then what about governing dynamics? I think I saw it in a documentary about a great mathematician -- the situation is that there are a group of single men and group of single women. Normally, all the men would try to go for the most "desirable" woman, block each other, and alienate the remaining women.</p>
<p>However, if each man chose the most realistic option (instead of the most desirable one), then the group as a whole would benefit.</p>
<p>aibarr, a lot of people in graduate school get married to other graduate students -- part of that process is men asking out eligible females wherever they happen to be (whether it's class, library, extracuricular social activity, etc.) Having said that, they should be gentlemanly enough to back off, once they know the woman in question has a boyfriend -- it speaks poorly of them if they don't.</p>
<p>They all knew I had a boyfriend. They knew quite well that I had a boyfriend. They were well aware that we were more or less just waiting out the distance so that we could get married. I'd been in the relationship for five years, he visited often, I talked about him quite often, and yet these guys were, I suppose, just that desperate. I know about the ladder theory, and I think it's actually pretty accurate, and normally in relationship issues I side with the guys, but the whole "they know I have a boyfriend and still went after me" thing is why it bothered me so much. It didn't seem to matter.</p>
<p>So, just don't be a jerk, I guess is what it all boils down to. But also, if a girl is single and says she doesn't want to date, and she looks a little crazy about it when you ask her, consider the idea that perhaps everyone's asking her out when she's just trying to figure out why there are clock skew issues with her chip design for her VLSI course and wants to be left alone a little bit.</p>
<p>"yet these guys were, I suppose, just that desperate."
well maybe they actually really really liked you.</p>