For the first time, a US college had more female engineering graduates than men
06-27-2016, 02:45 PM
On average, sure. But this is not an average group. Dartmouth has an 11% admission rate. 94% of the incoming freshman were in the top ten percent of their high school. Nearly half the incoming freshman were either valedictorian or salutatorian. Median SAT is 2178 with each section averaging about a 730.
The students, regardless of gender, are sufficiently capable and diligent enough to complete an undergraduate degree in engineering.
As for your suggestion of social engineering, admission to Dartmouth is independent of major. These girls are choosing to major in the subject, after they have been accepted. So unless you are claiming that general admission to Dartmouth is rigged, there is no evidence that future engineers are being discriminated against.
I don't think there is a conspiracy at hand. Dartmouth has a low student faculty ratio and.places considerable attention to.their undergrads. It should not be a surprise that they removed some of the painpoints females faced. Finally, most males at Dartmouth are trying to go the street. If engineering was your primary passion coming out of hs, you were male, AND you had Dartmouth credentials, you would go.to MIT, Stanford, Caltech, and the like.
Edit: I want to reinforce that last point. Dartmouth has fantastic pipelines to finance and consulting. Obscenely good pipelines. They have a very diminished presence in Tech and engineering at large. If going into the latter fields, after graduation, were a priority to you and you were male, you would go to another school that was more engineering focused. Dartmouth wouldn't hold you back, but it wouldn't propel you in the way MIT, Stanford, or even Penn might.
The students, regardless of gender, are sufficiently capable and diligent enough to complete an undergraduate degree in engineering.
As for your suggestion of social engineering, admission to Dartmouth is independent of major. These girls are choosing to major in the subject, after they have been accepted. So unless you are claiming that general admission to Dartmouth is rigged, there is no evidence that future engineers are being discriminated against.
I don't think there is a conspiracy at hand. Dartmouth has a low student faculty ratio and.places considerable attention to.their undergrads. It should not be a surprise that they removed some of the painpoints females faced. Finally, most males at Dartmouth are trying to go the street. If engineering was your primary passion coming out of hs, you were male, AND you had Dartmouth credentials, you would go.to MIT, Stanford, Caltech, and the like.
Edit: I want to reinforce that last point. Dartmouth has fantastic pipelines to finance and consulting. Obscenely good pipelines. They have a very diminished presence in Tech and engineering at large. If going into the latter fields, after graduation, were a priority to you and you were male, you would go to another school that was more engineering focused. Dartmouth wouldn't hold you back, but it wouldn't propel you in the way MIT, Stanford, or even Penn might.