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Sad_Face posted...

Capn Circus posted...

There's plenty of other women going to that same college those students can interact with. No student should be declined enrollment to their college and field of choice based off of their gender or race.

At a lot of engineering schools, this is absolutely not true. And realize that it's super competitive nowadays. For some schools, applicants are in 10s of thousands vying to class slots of maybe a 1000 and change. This means there are going to be a considerable number who, on paper, meet the criteria. That's when the application committee has no choice but to be selective about who they send acceptance letters to.

And women and men do gravitate to certain fields, but that doesn't mean it's wrong to recruit and garner interest in certain underrepresented demographics to join those fields.

I'm fine with universities advertising and sending the word out to women, so to speak, if they choose to do so. But I'm not fine with someone being admitted who is less qualified than another person. Like I said, there's women that meet the criteria outright already. It is what it is. No need to discriminate against people who have higher qualifications.
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