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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because girls dominate college admissions now. They have stronger applications and do better overall. As a result, many colleges have more females than males (UVA is an example).  So, they admit males at a higher rate to combat this. Good examples are Brown, Wesleyan, and Vassar.[/quote]

It is Catch-22. Girls do not want to matriculate at a school with a lot more girls than boys, so many colleges try to limit their gender imbalance. This means girls have a harder time being admitted with equal academics.  Girls also want admissions with identical academics as boys to be equally probable. Boys (as a group) underperform girls (as a group) academically nationwide. Athletics gave boys an admissions advantage over girls many years ago, but not as much now due to Title IX. It is impossible to square that circle. [/quote]

The answer is standardized test scores.  There are significantly more boys at the far right end of the curve than girls.  Especially if you don't count Asian girls.  [/quote]

So you want to tip the balance to young men who do slightly better on the math portion of standardized tests, but don’t have the executive functioning to excel in their schoolwork, day in and out? I’m not even going to touch your last sentence.[/quote]

No I don't.  I think this notion of trying to achieve equality of results is bad for society and bad for civilization.  But if you were looking for a metric that is better than how well they can handle a lacrosse stick, standardized test scores provides a metric that is objective and boys do better than girls.  [/quote]

Well, if you ran the zoo you could use that as a stronger metric than is currently in place.  As it stands, lacrosse skills seem to be pretty important to a lot of American colleges.   [/quote]

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