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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Girls have higher GPAs than boys on average. [/quote]

A lot more women teacher in high school. [/quote]
The girls have better ECs too. They mature quicker and are more organized. It’s no surprise that they do better than the boys.[/quote]

This. Especially because the boys tend to spend most of their time on sports. Which isn’t very useful for the application, unless a recruit. While the boy keeps talking about his soccer game and focuses on his own self, the girl sits on multiple community boards, volunteers extensively, runs a club, and may also play a sport. [/quote]

Get over yourself. Both my sons played soccer- one was president of NHS and an active 4 year member of an academy club and ran a lot of the school drives. He had a part-time summer job too. My other soccer player is a musician, won literary awards and very involved in two school clubs. Straight As all the way through, 5s all APs and 35 ACTs.  Their friends were very similar—different sports.  Their HS has tons of T10/20/Ivy make admits who were not sports recruits [/quote]

Single gender HS, right? For the wealthy and high SES the boys and girls are indistinguishable.  The ratio is identical.  It’s why the competition for T10s/Ivies is similar for both sexes but drops off as you go down rankings.  Gender balance at the top too.  Differences are more bits are stem girls are humanities- and that drives differences/favor for MIT/tech schools and SLACs but it doesn’t mean the other gender is less qualified. Huge misconception.  For the top schools both se es have the entire package. [/quote]
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The wealthy boys and girls are both impressive. However, the middle class girls do so much better than the middle class boys. I wonder what this will do to the dating market.[/quote]

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