Gender Balance: Do Girls need to apply to competitive schools ED?

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Anonymous wrote:UVA favors girls over boys.

LOTS of schools do. Or rather, they look at the stats and generally speaking choose girls over boys. It is so silly to think that just because there is an imbalance boys should or will have an easier time. Many schools are not prioritizing gender balance and why should they. I am the mother of three boys but it would be naive and absurd to hope that my sons be given preference over stronger female peers.

+100 from parent of boy. From what I’ve seen, girls in general are more organized and focused during the early high school years and boys are having to play catch-up when it’s time for college applications. It’s no wonder that the female applicant pool is stronger at many schools.

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Our private school's college decisions insta page is all early decision/EAs right now and it's overwhelmingly a sea of female students who got in ED! It's very stark, ratio of roughly 25 girls to 5 guys.

Not seeing that at our private school. Seeing pretty even numbers or more boys.

Same. All boys at privates.
Girls at UMichigan, UVA, UNC, etc.

Doubt it changes in RD? Unless hooked?

At our school, majority of earlies are women getting into HYPS and Ivy+, while boys are announcing ED acceptance to Tulane and Lehigh.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA favors girls over boys.

LOTS of schools do. Or rather, they look at the stats and generally speaking choose girls over boys. It is so silly to think that just because there is an imbalance boys should or will have an easier time. Many schools are not prioritizing gender balance and why should they. I am the mother of three boys but it would be naive and absurd to hope that my sons be given preference over stronger female peers.

+100 from parent of boy. From what I’ve seen, girls in general are more organized and focused during the early high school years and boys are having to play catch-up when it’s time for college applications. It’s no wonder that the female applicant pool is stronger at many schools.

+1

Our private school's college decisions insta page is all early decision/EAs right now and it's overwhelmingly a sea of female students who got in ED! It's very stark, ratio of roughly 25 girls to 5 guys.

Not seeing that at our private school. Seeing pretty even numbers or more boys.

Same. All boys at privates.
Girls at UMichigan, UVA, UNC, etc.

Doubt it changes in RD? Unless hooked?

Are the boys stronger academically in your school? Our girls are stronger but boys are getting the spots.

the prestige schools have been dominated by the women at our non-DMV private in ED/EA so far. maybe the boys will get some good results in RD?