Match Me: Hispanic Female STEM

JackH2021
Mon, 01 Nov 2021 01:26:05 +0000

SRCin LI, I’ll give my standard sales pitch for Carnegie Mellon. They have adopted a policy of gender parity in all of its STEM majors. Their overall acceptance rate is around 15% for engineers, but since far fewer women apply for engineering programs than men, the acceptance rate for female applicants is probably much higher (maybe 30%?). Because of this policy, a female applicant might get accepted to CMU, but rejected by a lower ranked school. The school is in a nice residential neighborhood in Pittsburgh, and getting downtown is pretty easy. When we toured CMU we were amazed by the resources, with new construction, recently completed buildings, and the latest new equipment in labs. Pittsburgh is a progressive city, and based on its website, CMU has gone full woke.

Now the bad news. Pittsburgh is not known for its great climate, but the sun does appear a couple times per month. Also, CMU is known to be stingy with financial aid.

The hurdle for your daughter will be her SAT scores. CMU’s mid-range math SAT for engineering students is 780-800. I would imagine with practice tests and tutoring she should be able to improve her score more than 50 points. If she can really improve her SAT score, she might want to give CMU a shot.