<p>Is there a better chance for women to get into engineering as compared to men?</p>
<p>Generally, yes.</p>
<p>Thank you. Are there any specific universities that have a positive bias towards women?. My daughter has a natural passion for engineering and has done many ECs to demonstrate that. She is taking all advanced math and honor courses - the most rigorous program the school offers, plus extra courses - doing program with NASA as well. She got a decent SAT over 2100, but her GPA is low - 3.5 - we are stressed she will not get into Engg Program at a good university. So, need some insights?</p>
<p>Don’t worry, she has a good shot.</p>
<p>Thank you…Any thoughts or suggestions on appropriate schools - Carnegie Mellon? Harvey Mudd? Univ of Michigan?</p>
<p>FYI, she probabaly won’t get into Harvey Mudd. My DD had about the same SAT and a higher GPA and didn’t make it there. Tough school to get into.</p>
<p>What kind of school is she looking for; small/large, city/rural, major?, etc. There are a lot of schools that she could get into and you need to start narrowing it down. </p>
<p>Some schools try to balance the male/female ratio. That, in some schools, will give your daughter an advantage. Other schools are gender blind (or at least appear that way). </p>
<p>More info would help in making recommendations.</p>
<p>What are your in-state options?</p>
<p>Women do have higher acceptance rates at some of the tech schools that have a much higher percentage of men students. </p>
<p>Is there a particular region of the country she is interested in? Large/small school? Urban/rural? </p>
<p>Do you know her class rank? 3.5 GPA can mean very different things at different schools. Is she a junior?</p>
<p>RPI might be a good school for her stats, Case Western, maybe Purdue as a safety. </p>
<p>You could start a thread on the Parents’ Forum asking for specific school suggestions. If you answer the above questions in your post, you could get more helpful suggestions.</p>
<p>Check your in state schools first.</p>
<p>My school has more women than men: 55% vs 45% and lots of women are also into Eng and Science. The admissions to my school will look the whole things not only SAT/ACT scores but GPA, recommendation and an essay. </p>
<p>More importantly, my school is private school BUT it is very generous in giving MONEY aka Fin. Aid, scholarship, grants, etc. </p>
<p>And if for some reasons, your daughter doesn’t like Engineering or Science, she always can change into business school and our business is school is pretty good also.</p>
<p>Case Western, U.Rochester, RPI, WPI, RIT. She might like WPI if she is looking for a smaller school and they are working hard to reduce the gender imbalance 
[Undergraduate</a> Admissions: Women - WPI](<a href=“http://www.wpi.edu/admissions/undergraduate/perspective/women.html]Undergraduate”>http://www.wpi.edu/admissions/undergraduate/perspective/women.html)</p>
<p>I’m sure they would appreciate the NASA connection -
[WPI</a> and NASA Connections are Longstanding?and Far-Reaching - WPI](<a href=“http://www.wpi.edu/news/perspectives/wpiandnasa.html]WPI”>http://www.wpi.edu/news/perspectives/wpiandnasa.html)
[NASA</a> - Sample Return Robot Return Challenge at WPI Concludes](<a href=“http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/stp/centennial_challenges/sample_return_robot/srr_feature_final.html]NASA”>NASA - Redirection Page)</p>
<p>This isnt specific for women, but she could also consider where she wants to live after graduation. Companies more often recruit from local or regional universities for engineering.</p>
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<p>With a 3.5 she’s not going to get into Michigan, unless it’s known as an extremely tough competitive high school. I would highly doubt she’d get into CMU or Harvey Mudd either. If Michigan has any bias towards women, I’m sure it’s only very slight. And the conventional wisdom is that Michigan puts relatively high weight on GPA compared to other similar schools, and relatively low on test scores. </p>
<p>That’s not to say that there aren’t great schools out there that she can get into though. Likely a state flagship (or for a few states, maybe the next best school). If she wants to leave the state maybe Purdue?</p>
<p>If you are considering CMU, you might also wish to look into the other [Association</a> of Independent Technological Universities: AITU](<a href=“http://theaitu.org%5DAssociation”>http://theaitu.org) schools.</p>
<p>Thank you. These responses have been super helpful. In state UW is a good choice. Hope she gets in. Her school is academically very challenging and in that she is taking the most rigourous course load plus extra course than most…plus NASA program…Hopefully these will give some edge.</p>
<p>She is open to rural or urb an and be any part of US or even Canada. How difficult is it for her to get into University of Rochester.</p>
<p>Jan2013 - which is your school? May be she should explore that.</p>
<p>You can use College Navigator to both search for schools meeting certain criteria or to look up basic admissions stats for individual schools.
[College</a> Navigator - University of Rochester](<a href=“College Navigator - University of Rochester”>College Navigator - University of Rochester)</p>
<p>To get admissions details on GPA you can usually search for the Common Data Set, but I can’t find one for U.Rochester. However I did find this -
<a href=“http://enrollment.rochester.edu/admissions/res/pdf/factsheet.pdf[/url]”>http://enrollment.rochester.edu/admissions/res/pdf/factsheet.pdf</a></p>
<p>They are all biased towards women. Every issue of every department’s news letter will have an article or something about diversity in it, every engineerin college will have student groups, scholarships, and programs for women. The more guy-heavy a program is (anything heavy on physics or computing) the more concern the administrators have with getting more women in and out.</p>
<p>The more chicks, the better, I say.</p>
<p>fishbone, is “UW” Wisconsin? If so, I would send your daughter there in a heartbeat. Great engineering school. No need to spend more on an out-of-state school.</p>