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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This year I’m on the hiring team as the senior/director person in our org’s entry level (consulting, political, policy type shop)…

and one thing I’ve noticed is the boys we are receiving from t20s are not good (on paper or even the few we’ve given interviews to just to get some boys in the hiring pipeline.) the boy interviews have been disasters so far

Granted we don’t get the top boys who go to more prestigious firms, or the stem boys, but the median liberal arts 
/social science boys we see in our applicant pool vs the girls is night and day.

The girls even make pro-sports small talk with me better than the boys!

Btw these are all private college t20:t30 class of 2024 or 2025 grads 
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What is a "median guy" or "median boy"? English is my 2nd language and I don't understand this term. Can you clarify? Is it a sports thing or academic term?[/quote]

It’s just thinking statistically about the bell curve of boys, ignoring the outliers on either ends of the curve and concentrating on the vast majority who are in the middle. [/quote]

OP isn’t really using the term correctly.  What they mean is that most of the boys they select to interview aren’t turning out well…not that if they interview 11 kids that interviews 1-5 go well, but things go downhill with the 6th best candidate.[/quote]

The boy applicants on paper are markedly worse and aren’t even getting to the interview stage for the most part

To be fair our worst interviewee was a girl who should’ve really done better - top mpp, t20 ug, solid internships [/quote]

Why are the boys worse on paper?[/quote]

lower gpa's, way worse internships from soph/junior year and  not as strong extra-curriculars. The girls also wrote much stronger cover letters -- like not even close - an absolutely massive gap. So much so, I wouldn't even care if the boys in the pool used AI to help them close the gap.

I'm personally ok with lower gpa's because for those kids I'll ask for test scores but others on the hiring panel are not so chill about lower gpa's.

We had d1 t20 athlete girls in the applicant pool this year and d3 nescac girls -- mind you I know that d1 t20 / d3 nescac boys go to finance so I wasn't expecting any athletes to apply to be honest. but still - a pretty stark contrast.

the girls had better-structured resumes (boys would either word vomit or have terribly designed resumes with barely any information -- I know there is no way a top school career services staff would ok some of these designs/resume structures if the boys actually walked in and asked for help.

it is interesting to see career-oriented schools vs non-career oriented schools in this regard.

Georgetown -- great resumes. clearly career services there gets their kids 'application/interview ready' even if they don't get the job or go onto subsequent rounds.

yale - there is no school where we received so many resumes formatted with such variety. i know it's yale so they think they can get away with it but still...come on. it didn't hurt the applicants that much but we were just quite surprised.

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