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E-PrinceFew students enter Princeton certain of the majors they will choose. Yet some students end up pursuing a fundamentally different path from the one on which they embarked in their first year, switching from an engineering degree to a Bachelor ...(back to the article)
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How many of these people were girls who applied to engineering, got the sex-based affirmative action boost, then switch to a softer major?
The article uses statistics from the class of 2012, yet all but one of the interviewed students are from the class of 2013 and all (from my brief review) are female. The author was a freshman female. Journalism at its peak here.
Yeah, the truly interesting statistic is the gender breakdown of those who switch programs. Can we please get this?
An extended article on this would be interesting.
i love erin, she's such a sweetheart. you go girl!
It would be difficult to collect direct answers to your question (which I surmise is mostly rhetorical). On the other hand, it should not be too difficult to compare the percentage of female BSE students in the freshman class (as soon as majors are declared) vs the percentage of female students graduating with a BSE degree. That has some tangential bearing to your question.
@AC,AB
Well, me for one. I like to think I would have gotten in anyway, and I did not drop out of engineering because it was too hard -- just because I found out that while I liked it in theory, I didn't like it in practice. Now I'm a natural science major.
Why do they interview such unimportant, random people?
You're right. "Freshman girls" should not write for the Prince.
@@AH: Oh dear! It must be very embarrassing when you realize that your comment makes no sense and you can not delete it!
It seems that you took offense so quickly that you failed to realize that I was criticizing one with pretensions of being a "journalist" of only interviewing people like her (i.e. she is not doing her job well). What a shame.