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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sorry but you are uniformed pp. Look at the scores for entry for men and women at any school. Women have to have much better scores/grades. And, yes, if your sons got to check a box...then it was easier for them to get in than others. Embrace it...don't be embarrased by it or try to de- bunk it.[/quote]

PP. please provide us with concrete examples of how schools make it harder for young women than young men to be admitted.  If you can provide a pattern of this bias, do you think that this form of discrimination against the schools?  Do you believe that universities should be in the business of providing social parity?  Is it possible that each each different sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, and of course race, provide something valuable that is worthy of consideration in admissions?  Most universities are now majority young women, would you like to see this increase into a super-majority?  Do we value characteristics (such as organization, in-class focus) in assigning good grades that place young women at an advantage during the middle- and high-school years?  Should we be placing an emphasis on skill sets which young men excel in instead?

There are many complicated questions surrounding these issues, and I think that we need to consider them carefully.  Where was your daughter accepted?  Do you feel that there are some schools which denied her admission where she would have otherwise been accepted as a young man with the same statistics? What do you think of students from high-achievement schools (Walt Whitman, TJ, Sidwell, NCS) who are compared to other high-achieving students in their class, and suffer by comparison?  Be grateful that you have a daughter, cherish her, and rejoice in the fact that there has never been a better time to be a woman in terms of future opportunity, pay, and success![/quote]

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