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Among sophomores, the proportion of male students increasing their self-confidence
in engineering as the right major for them is not quite as high as in the first year of the
program, while the proportion of males whose self-confidence has gone down is higher
than in the first year. As a result, nearly the same proportion of males increase their
confidence as decrease it. The same is true for females, although a higher proportion of
sophomore females’ self-confidence is steady from the beginning of the year to the end of
the year.
For males, a higher proportion of juniors lose confidence over the course of the
academic year than increase self-confidence – the gap is wide. This corresponds to some
of the faculty’s perception that the junior year is the most difficult of the program.
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