The admissions process for STEM related majors is really broken . Gone are the days are universities really trying to take only the best and more qualified candidates. In the move for more diversity , some kids who are you cookie cutter white or asian male student will get cut, simply because there’s too many white or asian male engineers and stem career related individuals. The odds of my kid being able to get in have gone significantly up because of her gender , versus if I had a biological son all else being equal. Sorry, that’s reality. It’s not to say one gender is less capable than others. far from it. It’s saying university administrators are biasing admissions to settle diversity scores. Great if your kid falls into one of the diversity categories, totally sucks if your kid is one of the ones excluded through no fault of their own. This is why many of us were fighting against bullshit things like SCA-5 a few years ago…though, technically this isn’t fully my fight. My kid could, if she wanted to, probably play the gender diversity card a few years from now for a STEM related major. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s easier for her to get into school under an engineering program versus a fine art program, even though I could see her more likely to want to do fine art than engineering. That would be pretty phucked up too.