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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The more gpa is considered the standard for being "qualified," the greater the proportion of girls will be.

Sure some schools have gone back to requiring scores, but that doesn't necessarily mean gpa weighs less. Admissions may still be overweighting gpa.[/quote]
Sorry this was a reply to the post above about the ycbk podcast discussion of gender gap.

Or maybe something else is going on with the algorithms involved. My high stats boy was denied at top schools this round.[/quote]
Odd results that don't make sense, with regard to a disproportionate number of girls being accepted to highly selective schools than boys? Yes, it's possible that algorithms are at work. Mathematical models may not be the holy grail that the enrollment management industry makes them out to be.[/quote]

Maybe it's the major the girls are selecting?
But in the podcast, aren't they just saying the girls are "stronger"? Not that they are being accepted at a higher rate. 
Or am I missing something?[/quote]
I didn't listen yet (maybe later), but the question would then be what makes the girls "stronger" applicants. GPA would be the obvious factor, since that is well known to favor girls on average, but if they meant actual acceptances, then I would wonder if it were something else. I don't know, but the reason that an algorithm result comes to mind is that sometimes algorithms lead to unintentional results, e.g. where a student with a high score relative to the school's average leads to a low yield score that ultimately has them deferred or waitlisted or even denied. My question would be whether the scarcity of "qualified" boys leads to less of them getting admitted because the algorithm has them being less likely to yield under a variable assumption that they are more likely to enroll elsewhere. I know this sounds like tortured logic, but my gut guess is that this is an algorithm issue and it seems to get worse each year (more girls than boys admitted, though that brings in a separate question of going through individual CDSs to determine whether that's a matter of who applies vs who is admitted).[/quote]

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