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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is easy to determine. Go to the school’s common data set and look at applications and admits by gender. Compute a percentage to see if there is a bias. [/quote]

I have never seen this work in practice after looking through CDS. Even where a gender imbalance where women outnumber men, the admit rate for men is usually lower in my experience. Would be curious of any schools people find where men are minority AND men have a higher acceptance rate.[/quote]

Look at William & Mary's data, which is a pretty representative of how college's are on average 60% percent women nowadays

https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=William+%26&s=all&id=231624#enrolmt

Look under the Admissions tab - men accepted at 39% percent vs. women at 30%

Then look at the Enrollment Tab and the Undergraduate Student Gender Tab - 58% women vs. 42% Men

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Latest entering class was a smidgen more balanced:  44% male, 56% female (no numbers on how many of each applied).  And interestingly, 40% of the class was from OOS.  Just speculating here, but perhaps they took more OOS to help with gender balance?

https://www.wm.edu/admission/undergraduateadmission/facts-figures/class-profile/index.php
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