<p>Is it easier for women to gain admission to engineering than men?</p>
<p>I think so. I know girls who were admitted to engineering with substantially lower qualifications than males who were rejected. It’s hard to speak to a trend, though.</p>
<p>I have yet to see a female with “substantially” lower scores get in to Cockrell vs males. In my school, a white female who was #9/540 in my class with a 1900 SAT and okay extracurricular was rejected. Meanwhile, a Hispanic male who was around #15, had a similar SAT score, and similar amount of extracurricular was accepted. </p>
<p>It is likely they will pick a woman over a guy with the same stats, but when it comes down to it, a female can’t get in just by being female; you still have to have good stats.</p>
<p>Edit: They applied to the same major - chemical engineering.</p>
<p>^ Yes, but in that case the comparison involves minority ethnicity, for which there is a known and stated advantage in the application process, while the male/female thing is more of a grey area. “Substantially” might have been a bit of an overstatement but, like you said, if a girl and a guy apply to engineering with the same stats the girl will probably get in over the guy, making it easier on the whole for women to gain admission in opposition to men.</p>
<p>eh its not too far of a stretch to think that women would get in easier</p>
<p>there is a lot less women in engineering so I could see why they would want more women in that school</p>
<p>Oh yes. 
I agree. No doubt they get priority, but there’s also a misconception that women have a HUGE advantage over males.</p>
<p>AS A RULE, I think women don’t apply for UT engineering unless they have pretty decent stats. I think it’s a self-selecting process. I find it’s still kind of a hard-sell to get a lot of young women to go into engineering (I try, since I’m an older female engineer). I find it hard to believe that I’m still the only female at a lot of structural engineering association meetings up here. What the heck? Lately, there has been one other woman, at least, but she’s even older than I am!</p>
<p>I agree. As women, we’ve learned that we have to earn everything, and not very many things are just handed to us. So we apply with confidence, or we just go a different route. The men are the gambling types. Typically :)</p>
<p>I definitely see that, MaineLonghorn. The few ladies I know who applied to Cockrell (or any other engineering school) were always math/science focused and had fairly good stats. However, I know many men who applied to engineering, and quite a few applied simply for the heck of it. You won’t find many women applying for the “heck of it”. :)</p>
<p>haha if you’re a male engineer, trust me when I say that you should fight for more females to make it in</p>
<p>And why’s that?</p>
<p>I think he would like more young ladies in his classes, letsgoletsgo1!</p>
<p>I met my future husband in engineering grad school at UT. :)</p>
<p>Haha, I’m showing my age, apparently. I guess that one went right over my head!</p>