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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if it varies by high school.

Our high school admitted 20 women and 5 men to Michigan (in-state).

I was freaked out by this until I realized this was similar to the gender breakdowns of the summa cum laudes and NHS.  So women are overperforming at our high school, and they just take the top of the class.  Other schools might have a different split.  [/quote]
Would you have been freaked out if it was 2 men and 5 women?[/quote]

Not really.  For many reasons.  But primarily because 7 is a very small sample of a population of 330-ish students compared to 25.  You'd expect widely varying splits with no explanation from such a small sample.  Also 2 of 7 is closer to an even gender split and the actual U of M gender split than 5 of 25.  25 is actually a lot of individual decisions when doing holistic admissions.

Mainly I was shocked that boys have such bad grades at my high school that summa cum laude was 75% girls.  It's definitely not because they are taking harder classes than girls and getting worse grades.  The top kids have a limited choice of weighted classes and are all in roughly the same things. So the boys are either underperforming in the same classes or not taking as many weighted classes.

Our school district visibly lacks high math SAT performers and science nerds of either gender so from the outside we don't have that kind of kid which is a population that skews male.  Those parents and kids are known to be in the next school district over.

So on balance, our district seems to have this reported trend of females outperforming males and is contributing to the slight gender skew at U of M. [/quote]

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