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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is this a surprise?  Schools would like a gender balance, there are more qualified applicants than seats and top schools can afford to have a slightly easier acceptance rate for males and still get top students.

There are more women applying to almost every top program.

I am a mother of daughters and my oldest is  at a school that is 60% female.  I think a gender balance is important for college if at all possible.[/quote]

I’m the OP and I guess it’s just a surprise to me because it’s my first time with a senior. I think it’s also harder to see one student succeed over another [b]objectively less qualified applicant [/b]when you know the kids personally. You really do learn something new everyday in this process. [/quote]

You don't know who's "qualified" for admission or not. The college makes that call.

Are you in other kids' grade book or something?

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Regardless of whether these particular applicant are or aren't, we know that less qualified boys get in over more qualified girls. The boys' qualification is being boys. Admissions officers have said so (this was 2006 and it's only gotten worse: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/23/opinion/to-all-the-girls-ive-rejected.html).

My spouse used to work in development at an Ivy and helped shepherd big donors' kids through the process. All the time, development-case boys who were unimpressive were admitted over girls (also children of donors) who were far more impressive. It was totally demoralizing to watch.[/quote]

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