Is it that much easier for females to get in elite engineering schools?

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Moreover, men seem perfectly capable of becoming scientists without a math board score of 790. Surveying a representative population of working scientists and engineers, Dr. Weinberger has discovered that the women were likelier than the men to have very high test scores. “Women are more cautious about entering these professions unless they have very high scores to begin with,” she said.</p>

<p>And this remains true even though a given score on standardized math tests is less significant for women than for men. Dr. Valian, of Hunter, observes that among women and men taking the same advanced math courses in college, women with somewhat lower SAT scores often do better than men with higher scores. “The SAT’s turn out to underpredict female and overpredict male performance,” she said. Again, the reasons remain mysterious.

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<p>This was reprinted in the NYT. </p>

<p>Here’s the link: <a href=“http://www.ncsu.edu/awf/graymatter.html[/url]”>http://www.ncsu.edu/awf/graymatter.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Will find a more comprehensive link when I have time.</p>