Help with College List - Computer Science major

Much2learn
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 01:25:20 +0000

“@ucbalumnus Are girls being nudged off to AP statistics or no math at all?”

They are being nudged both ways. Mostly into easier math though. Many students take 4 years in high school, and finish with Pre-calc, AP Stat, or AP Calc AB. Some only take the required 3 years and stop at algebra II or geometry.

The people nudging girls down don’t realize they are doing it, and so it happens over and over again. They just see the girls differently, and so it happens over and over again. Everyone acts like it is a big mystery. Teachers and parents do it. Often it is as subtle as the tone in people’s response when a girl says they are interested in engineering compared to when a boy says it.

“Is multivariable calculus the only offering of post-BC math at this school?”

MV is the only math above BC Calculus that is taught at our HS. She did tack on Linear Algebra during the summer at Northwestern.

As a freshman at Penn she started in MV Calc, but she was really bored, so her faculty advisor tested her and moved her up to the next course in the sequence (Math 240). The point is that the boys tend to begin college with more high level math and that puts the girls at a disadvantage in engineering and CS.