<p>@ucbalumnus thanks for the courses list, I’ve noted it down, you were really very helpful.
@ BrownParent thanks for the link, will take my time exploring it.
@ intparent I had Harvey Mudd in mind, but requirements would be more stringent for me as I’m a male. Here’s a research piece :
College administrators are leery of letting the gender divide grow
too wide on their campuses. Some believe that the tipping point is
reached when women make up 60% or more of the student body.
When that happens, female applicants will sometimes look for campuses
with a closer ratio of men and women. And teenage boys will
cross these male-lite schools off their list because they don’t want to
be too outnumbered. Or at least that is the fear.
These lopsided percentages have led to a practice that can
incense the parents of teenage girls. At some institutions, admissions
offices are trying to bring the numbers back to equilibrium by giving
boys a break. (This is chiefly a private college phenomenon.) At the
same time that schools are rejecting qualified girls, they are embracing
male candidates who can thank their Y-chromosomes, in part, for
their admission letters.
Here are a couple of examples of schools that have been accepting
more men than women. At Kenyon College, the acceptance rate
for young women was recently 30.9% versus 37.3% for men. Swarthmore
College, an elite liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, recently
accepted 17.7% of its male applicants and 13.2% of the women who
applied.
In 2009, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights launched an investigation
into whether certain liberal arts colleges were rejecting too
many female applicants. The probe was controversial, and it was shut
down without releasing any conclusions in 2011.</p>
<p>Teenage boys don’t enjoy all the advantages. Young women can
capture a competitive advantage if they apply to schools where men
predominate. These, of course, are usually the schools best known for
their engineering programs and other technical degrees.
In its latest admission figures, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
for instance, accepted 15.5% of women, but just 7.5% of men.
At the California Institute of Technology, the acceptance rates were
9.1% for male applicants and 23.1% for women. The most astounding
gender advantage that I found was at Harvey Mudd College, a prestigious
engineering/liberal arts college outside Los Angeles. Forty eight
percent of women were accepted, but just 17% of male applicants.</p>