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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]It's hard to know, really. But I'd bet that W&M is more self-selecting than UVA. Certainly far fewer boys apply there than girls. But many in state students who apply either to UVA or W&M (or both) often apply to JMU as a safety. If you're good enough for UVA to be on your radar, you're pretty much guaranteed admission to JMU.[/quote]

There is this urban myth going around that W&M has become a school that only interests girls.  Someone posted on another thread that it's on it's way to becoming a private all female college.  Nothing could be farther from the truth.  UVA's current undergraduate enrollment is 55% female vs. 58% at W&M.  Is this a meaningful difference?  And BTW, JMU is a very good school.  Is there any question that Virginia overall has the finest state university system in the country? Imagine if you were stuck with SUNY Binghampton/Geneseo.  Not ideal![/quote]

It's not an urban myth.  Last year 9011 women applied but only 5371 men.  That's almost twice as many women.  The only reason the school is 58 percent women and not more is because the school admitted 44 percent of male applicants but only 32 percent for women.  Because it's a tougher admit for women without question, women admitted there are more likely to be admitted to other top colleges than men and go elsewhere.

Compare this to UVA, which had 17.048 women apply and 15,329 men -- and admitted 29 and 31 percent.  Not nearly as big a discrepancy.

There is simply no question that William and Mary is much more attractive to women than men.  It always has been, and its Dean of Admissions has been first to admit it.  He has suggested that it's partly because it doesn't have an engineering school and doesn't have Division 1-A football.

Fact, not myth.       [/quote]

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