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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mine got into Princeton and it's a lot harder for girls to do that than boys nowadays since boys aren't doing as well grade wise and SAT wise. You should be fine OP. What activities is your son doing?[/quote]

Congrats to your daughter.  Just have to say how annoying I find it that it is more difficult for girls to gain admission since boys aren't doing well.  Doesn't anyone realize how absurd that is?  How many decades women were barred from elite schools because they couldn't cut it, but now when they can, the bar is positioned differently.  What BS.  Again, congrats to your daughter.[/quote]

Please read the literature on child education and development.  Young men mature and develop later than young women, but it tends to even out in their 20s.[/quote]

Look, I get that and have a son.  But still feel a bit of a whatever.  What was the excuse all those preceding decades when women were barred admission?  Were young men more mature then, but less now?  This is a bit like the gentleman's C and the umbrage that sons of the privileged took when they had to start studying in the 40s, 50s, 60s when colleges opened their doors to hard working students of other races and ethnicities.

Young women master what it takes to gain entry to elite educational institutions and now they have to be twice or three times as good as a guy who gets admitted based on his potential, not present product?  [/quote]

In the past, schools clearly discriminated against women in admissions.  They have spent the past five decades attempting to remedy the problem, and now the pendulum has swung the other way, with young women being the majority of students in most colleges.  The colleges are attempting to promote gender parity -- and what is sauce for the gander, is sauce for the goose.[/quote]

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