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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I actually don't see it with kids for the top schools because they are all 50/50.  Even MIT is 50/50.

I see it more at the tiers of 20+...places like Tulane that are 63% female and even many of the flagships that tend to have far more females applying and attending.[/quote]

They are 50/50 because they accept more male applicants, there are less of them.[/quote]

Here are some samples from the most recent CDS:

Princeton:  20,100 F applying / 19,500 M applying
Brown:  31,650 F applying / 19,666 m applying
Cornell: 34,172 F / 33,674 M
Dartmouth:  15,325 F / 13,516 M
Harvard:  30,363 F / 26,301 M
MIT:  8,939 F / 16,568 M
Stanford:  26,600 F / 27,133 M
Penn:  32,137 F / 27,128 M

So, seems like a definite advantage for men at Brown and definite advantage at MIT for women.  Slight advantage for men at Harvard and Penn
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This assumes that the average male and female applicant is approximately equal in qualifications. If female applicants are stronger on average (as evidence suggests they are), the shares by gender don't fully reflect the disparity.

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T20 is top 2% of college students.  I'm not sure there are more girls in that 2%, especially in STEM.  Maybe by GPA.  But at our school it's mostly boys winning the EC math and hacking competitions.  Same thing with the competitive robotics team.  There are many girls on the team, including "leadership positions", but the "hotshot" programmers who write the winning code are mostly boys.[/quote]

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