Is Princeton engineering easier to get into than another science major?

mobius911
Tue, 20 Oct 2015 23:28:27 +0000

^Unfortunately the linked website doesn’t list data by gender. So one approach to estimate this is to look at acceptance stats for “pure play” elite STEM schools like MIT and Caltech as surrogates, since gender data for the complete school is known. For these schools the number of female applicants is 1/3 - 1/2 the number of male applicants, and the female acceptance rate is 2-3X the male rate (source: College Navigator).

Can you apply those same metrics to Princeton Engineering? Don’t know. It’s reasonable to think that there may be some benefit. But this isn’t the kind of bump where you can start counting it as likely. More like the needle moves from “ludicrous reach” to “hyper reach”.