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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You used “they” throughout, I assume to disguise your child’s sex. But it matters in that a boy will have a substantially better shot at Amherst than a girl with the same stats. Apply anyway, intellectual and good writer could help.[/quote]

Weird statement.  Source?[/quote]

Looking at the CDS: 11.5% of men vs. 11.1% of women admitted for 2019. Slightly better shot, not subsrantially better.[/quote]

Maybe “substantially“ overstated it, but Amherst gets more female applicants than male and female applicants have, on average, higher stats than male applicants. But their goal is a gender balanced class. My experience with admissions is that boys do better than you’d expect from their profiles and girls have a harder time. I think there’s an additional advantage, not captured in the percentages above, that more girls want SLACs like Amherst and so the yield for girls is higher — and that boys are applying who would prefer other schools.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/03/13/want-an-edge-in-college-admissions-see-the-schools-where-women-and-men-have-an-advantage/%3foutputType=amp[/quote]

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