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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last year

Brown 
19,666 male (846)
31,550 female (849)

Yale
22,003 male (788)
29,699 female (853)

I have a non-artsy son at Brown, visited all except Dartmouth. Yale and Brown were favorites. Speculating maybe less pre-prof, not big Greek life, and community vibe appeals to females (and males).

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So except for MIT and caltech, this is all colleges now. But why? Are the bros not even bothering unless they are a recruited athlete? I assume they are going NESCAC or state schools.[/quote]

I quickly looked at UPenn and Harvard and it was more balanced on applications. I’m sure all are skewing more female, but Y&B are definitely skewing more. Not sure where bros are going besides Bucknell. 😁[/quote]

Harvard is Harvard, but Penn has a a good engineering school and it has Wharton. And both of those programs attract smart young men.

Schools like Brown and Yale, which don't have meaningful engineering programs or undergrad business schools, are struggling - relatively speaking - to attract the increasingly limited number of accomplished young men out there. Those young men have options. And the smartest do tend to go into engineering, CS or finance related fields. If a school is not competitive in those majors, it further limits the pool of competitive male applicants. And so you see distortions like at Brown and Yale when it comes to the ratio of male/female applicants. I'm sure schools like Cornell, Northwestern, Duke, Rice, Stanford, Michigan and other top schools that have solid engineering programs have a more equitable distribution of applicants. [/quote]

Agree with you, didn’t feel like writing it all out, glad you did. I just peeked to compare how much they suffered. It makes sense to me why it is what it is. [/quote]

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