Boy applicant pool has lower acceptance rate at LACs
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Anonymous
| I thought being a boy applicant was a boost at LACs where there's a gender imbalance. Sure, more girls apply than boys, but when you break out the acceptance rates, the girls have higher acceptance rates than the boys sometimes by as much as 15%. So is it actually harder for boys to get in? |
Anonymous
| you looked at cds for how many lacs? |
Anonymous
The female applicants may be much more qualified. |
Anonymous
Also, international students likely skew male… |
Anonymous
| This thread is heresay |
Anonymous
Where did you “here” that? |
Anonymous
| Peterson's breaks out acceptance rates by gender. For the top tier schools, the rates are pretty much equal, but the some of the others have much higher acceptance rates for girls. If they wanted to equalize, they could accept more boys but they don't. I guess they're not getting enough qualified boys. |
Anonymous
| Yes. DS's top choice is technically a LAC, though STEM-focused, and women are admitted at much higher rates. Nothing you can do about it... |
Anonymous
The college application equivalent of women applying for jobs when they meet most of the qualification and men applying when they meet far fewer of the qualifications. |
Anonymous
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Trinity College: Girls 41%; Boys 31%
Conn College: Girls 45%; Boys 34% Sewanee: Girls 57%; Boys 47% Dickinson: Girls 38%; Boys 31% Bucknell: Girls 35%; Boys 30% Lehigh: Girls 39%; Boys 35% Furman: Girls 71%; Boys 62% Oberlin: Girls 37%; Boys 32% Grinnell: Girls 12%; Boys 9% Lake Forest: Girls 64%; Boys 54% St. Olaf: Girls 60%; Boys 52% |
Anonymous
You just said the issue: STEM-focused LAC. Probably, more boys apply, so girls are accepted at higher rates. Trying to get some gender balance. |
Anonymous
| At most of them, more girls apply. So why do people keep talking about a boy boost? |
Anonymous
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"While Brandeis has actually had higher acceptance rates for women than men the last three years — it says federal data showing it accepted 51 percent of men and 21 percent of women last year is incorrect — a noncomprehensive review of federal data shows that many other selective colleges have higher admission rates for men.
These include Boston, Bowdoin and Swarthmore colleges; Brown, Denison, Pepperdine, Pomona, Vanderbilt and Wesleyan universities; and the University of Miami. At each school, men were at least 2 percentage points more likely than women to be accepted in both 2019 and 2020. Pitzer College admitted 20 percent of men last year compared to 15 percent of women, and Vassar College accepted 28 percent of men compared to 23 percent of women. Both had more than twice as many female applicants as male applicants.... Because so many more women than men apply to these liberal arts colleges, if an institution wants to have gender balance on campus, “there’s not a lot you can do other than discriminate,” said Charles Deacon, dean of admission at Georgetown University. “You can argue you’re not discriminating because you’re trying to get a balance, but there isn’t much else you can do besides make [gender] a factor.” While Georgetown has a slightly higher acceptance rate for men than women, Deacon said that it does not consider gender in its review process." (https://hechingerreport.org/an-unnoticed-result-of-the-decline-of-men-in-college-its-harder-for-women-to-get-in/) |
Anonymous
Well, if he is a strong student, then guessing he has a great shot. |
Anonymous
| So? |