Normal Science vs. Engineering School for a Female Student in STEM

juillet
Sun, 13 Mar 2016 04:06:48 +0000

Is there really any difference between engineering departments and normal science departments on how they view girls?

There’s really no blanket, general answer to this question - it’s going to be different at each school. At some schools the engineering department(s) may be open and welcoming utopias while the computer science department is a snake pit, others vice versa, and at some schools both may be different kinds of snake pits. I’m exaggerating, of course, but it really is just going to vary.

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My counselor had advised me to apply for the engineering department in colleges rather than the “arts and science” ones, claiming that the engineering departments heavily favor female applicants while the normal sciences departments do not do so.

Also isn’t universally true. What are the “normal” science departments? Biology and chemistry are also sciences alongside computer science and physics. The representation of women in each department is going to be different. And some universities simply don’t admit by major. At some you are admitted to the school and at some you just are admitted to the whole university and can pick your major later.