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[quote=Anonymous]Washington Post (or maybe NYT, but pretty sure WashPo) did a story about this a year or so ago? Basically showed that women increasingly apply to LACs in much higher numbers and are closing/have closed the testing gap to test higher on admissions tests. Some schools with higher priority on equity balance, try to keep roughly(ish) proportions of males and females, meaning males get an admissions boost. Other schools, either to be gender-blind and/or often chasing rankings which depends on scores, etc., admit materially disproportionate numbers of males v. females. The story named some schools in each camp, I remember William & Mary, e.g.

Fwiw I have worked in a graduate program at two different universities that did the latter, and we had female enrollment at 60%+ the last several years. Glad to see women excel in a traditionally non-STEM, male-dominated field :D but it does mean a small cluster of males usually sit together in class. I know that women were in that position for decades (and still in the classroom, depending on the class/major/program), but my university experience since college was always closer to 50/50, so it's noticeable.[/quote]

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