Women in engineering

xcloudy
Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:56:14 +0000

I have yet to see a female with “substantially” lower scores get in to Cockrell vs males. In my school, a white female who was #9/540 in my class with a 1900 SAT and okay extracurricular was rejected. Meanwhile, a Hispanic male who was around #15, had a similar SAT score, and similar amount of extracurricular was accepted.

It is likely they will pick a woman over a guy with the same stats, but when it comes down to it, a female can’t get in just by being female; you still have to have good stats.

Edit: They applied to the same major - chemical engineering.