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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Listen to today’s YCBK. Full blown attack on Northeastern and the “shady” way they handle their satellite campuses and obvious consideration of need vs full pay. They also talked about the massive gender gap in quality of applicants this year between male and female: “ “You know, I see, I see, se[b]e usually boys have more selective options than somebody who's female with the same sort of stats. [/b]They're obviously not the same person ever, but I was really... Now, I had a VP of Enrollment who's been in the profession for maybe 25 years, multiple schools. Tell me, [b]we've never seen a gender gap like this. Like, I don't know what's going on out there.[/b] And we were just grappling with each other, like, what was causing that? Was it COVID? How COVID impacted? You know, we were just speculating together. But he was telling me that they've [b]never seen this disparity in the strength of the girl pool versus the boy pool like to have this year. [/b]I don't know if you heard, you might not have heard because I just did it, this episode last Monday, where I went through like 15 different changes that I'm expecting because of all the financial pressure colleges are under.” From Your College Bound Kid | Admission Tips, Admission Trends & Admission Interviews: An interview with Jim Bock, Dean and VP at Swarthmore College-3 of 3, Apr 23, 2025 [/quote] Girl pool is stronger, but less impressive boys are being admitted to more and more selective schools. I think the algo is working? This is precisely what they want - more boys admitted for that gender balance. It's just the girl "pool" is stronger. [/quote] My son is at all male private (not a big 3) and they are very competitive. High rigor, high test scores, high GPAs. Very competitive admits. Maybe coming from typical schools - not the case from ours. [/quote] This is not a judgement or commentary about YOUR specific kid or your SCHOOL. Its a comment made by the podcasters in light of the "national" pool of boys and girls. The girls are overall stronger in the national pool. Everyone agrees to this. No one is discounting individual achievements, including that of your very 'accomplished' kid...... [/quote]
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