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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 objectively less qualified applicant when you know the kids personally. You really do learn something new everyday in this process. [/quote]

If you have high school daughters the school climate has really changed since you were in high school. My boys go to a high school that is essentially 50/50 male/female. However, in their AP and Honors classes, they are a noticiable minority. However, the very top students in both grades are boys. By a noticeable margin it is the boys who are recognized for the highest GPAs, NMSF, academic awards. So don't assume that those boys are getting an unfair advantabe.[/quote]

It's both I think. There are more boy outliers in either direction (I think there is a sex-linked chromosome basis for this, and it's the same reason boys are more likely than girls to have SN). There are definitely boys who are exceptional students. But there are many more girls who are high performers, as a group, than the group of high performing boys, so to keep gender ratios roughly equal, boys who are not as high performing get a bump in admissions and more latitude for occasional bad grades, etc.[/quote]

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