stmchn

Yeah, I had the same thing happen to me. It was really disappointing not to get in. The email said not to take it personally and that they try to find the best fit but it's hard not to take it personally and wonder why they didn't find you fit enough for Hacker School. I'm sure they have good reasons though.

I dislike that this kind of discussion lumps everything in STEM as one big amorphous blob. STEM covers a lot of really diverse fields which, big surprise, means that some fields within it are doing well while others, not so much.

That's my issue with this list too. I usually get excited finding a list like this, hoping to find other like-minded women to look up to as a young engineer. But from that list, only roughly 10% of them are actual engineers with the rest being more business and marketing oriented and I just can't relate to them all that much.