engineering for females

boneh3ad
Thu, 13 Jun 2019 21:05:01 +0000

lookingforward:

It doesn’t matter what applied to us, as parents. Nor some more recent anecdotes. Things change.

What about when speaking based on experienced as a current engineering faculty member? Asking for a friend.

lookingforward:

For the more competitive colleges (holistic elites,) one of the necessities, ime, IS the relevant activities.

I guess kids that go to high schools that do not offer a broad range of STEM ECs can’t go to competitive engineering programs for college. Even my old high school years later only has one additional club related to this sort of thing, and there isn’t exactly a lot of high tech industry or anything in the area I grew up to offer ECs outside of the school-sponsored ones. It’s sad for me to learn that apparently the kids in my hometown will have a hard time studying engineering because of this.

lookingforward:

You don;t get in over competing applicants just for being strong in stem and thinking engineering sounds interesting.

What portion of 17- and 18-year-olds do you think are starting college with their lives already figured out? The vast majority of high school students are considering engineering because they think it “sounds interesting,” not because they already have years of engineering experience and their lives already planned out. Some students fit into that mold. The vast majority do not.