Women In Engineering

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<p>I'm wondering a few things regarding women in engineering:</p>

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<li><p>Acceptance rates-- what colleges go the extra mile to ensure a 1:1 ratio in the freshman class? what about specific schools (for example, the entire Stanford freshman class has a 1:1 ratio, but what about the subset of freshmen in the school of engineering?)?</p></li>
<li><p>Life as a WISE: How are you treated by your peers? Is there and what kind of support is there? What are some women-only opportunities?</p></li>
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<p>Thanks!</p>

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<h1>1 would be hard to do even if they tried.</h1>

<p>The total number of female applicants to all UC schools in engineering was less than half of the number of students admitted to all UC schools in engineering for the 2008-2009 freshman class. I.e. they still would not be 50% female even if every one of the 2,758 female applicants to engineering were among the 9,151 admitted into engineering.</p>

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<p>^ Wow. Do you have any more info on that, like the admit rates for each gender?
To my knowledge, MIT has about a 1:1 ratio.</p>

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<p>For UC as a whole in 2008-2009, women applying to engineering had a slightly higher admit rate, but a slightly lower yield rate.</p>

<p>The information can be dug out of [url=&lt;a href=“http://statfinder.ucop.edu%5DUniversity”&gt;http://statfinder.ucop.edu]University</a> of California: StatFinder<a href=“custom%20tables”>/url</a>.</p>

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<p>You should look at Olin college. It is somewhere around 45% women. The work hard to reach out to female high schoolers and the environment is very woman friendly. It’s also one of the most amazing engineering schools in existence (says this biased female alumna).</p>

<p>Wherever you do engineering you should join the Society of Women Engineers. That is a great way to network, make connections, and learn about women in engineering.</p>

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<p>Certain fields are self selecting, there is no way possible to have a 1:1 ratio. On the other side of the equation, this is why there is no need for a 1:1 in early Childhood or Home Ec.</p>

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<p>I personally have not had any issues at my school. Although my classes have been very off-balance (worst was 25:1), the most I’ve had to deal with are comments about me being the only girl present or being “one of the guys.” Clearly not an issue- I only bring it up to mention that it’s noticed that the ratio is skewed, but I don’t have problems.</p>

<p>However, I have had to deal with asses outside of my home school during a summer class who think women shouldn’t be in engineering (only peers). I have heard stories from fellow women who’ve had to deal with prof’s who need a serious reality check.</p>

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<p>How about Smith? All women: [Smith</a> College: Picker Engineering Program](<a href=“http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Engin/]Smith”>Engineering | Smith College)</p>

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<p>Your life does not have to be defined by statistics and stereotypes. Just do whatever you like, regardless of what other people who happen to share one demographic characteristic with you tend to do.</p>