Resolves YES if my Regular Decision application to Harvey Mudd College is accepted and NO if it is rejected. Resolves N/A if I am unable to get a definitive response for any reason.
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Academic information submitted:
preferred majors: Math-CS joint major, Mathematics
GPA: 4.16 weighted on a 4.0 scale
standardized tests: SAT (790 English, 780 Math)
@ShakedKoplewitz Female, but I left the optional gender box on my application blank. I haven't done any olympiads.
@a Hm, are there other ways to easily conclude your gender from the application (e.g. having a typically-female name)? IIRC HM has a 5x higher acceptance rate for women - I'd short this market for a male applicant but I don't think it's topo far off for a female applicant.
@ShakedKoplewitz A lot of the gender gap at engineering schools like HM is because men tend to apply regardless of their aptitude while women tend to only apply if they're a good fit. Conditioning on basic things like SAT scores and GPA gets rid of most of the bias.
@Gabrielle this seems false? Afaict there are both more female applicants and more female applications overall.
@ShakedKoplewitz That’s absolutely true generally speaking for colleges, but not for engineering schools like HM or MIT.
Harvey Mudd does have an intentional 50% gender policy, so there’s still going to be some bias toward letting in women more easily (partly because women tend to be scared away from STEM earlier in the pipeline!) but it’s not as strong a bias as it appears from the numbers.
Did you include that you are #3 on the Manifold leaderboards? Instant admission, I'm told.
@SG I see now that @acc just overtook her for #2, but you don't have to rub it in...
