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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It matters for admission.  It is harder for females to get in to the schools where the ratio is more pronounced.  Conn College for example.[/quote]

How did you come to this conclusion? I'm the PP who looked into this and the stats from Conn College's 2020 Common Data Set suggest otherwise. 59% of applicants were women, 65% of accepted students were women, and 62% of the entering class were women. Obviously this doesn't show whether *more* female applicants were more highly qualified than male applicants, but it does show that on average Conn College accepted a higher proportion of female applicants than male applicants. So it's not obvious that it's harder to get in as a woman, and it may actually be easier to get in.

I was surprised that this is pretty consistent with many schools - there are more female applicants all around and for many schools that translates to more female admits and more female entering students.[/quote]

You're right you can't conclude from that data that it's harder to get in as a girl, but everyone I know in admissions says point blank that it is. Girls are generally stronger candidates than boys. That holds true at every level, from very competitive colleges to less competitive ones. [/quote]

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