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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't want to get caught up in the back-and-forth, but it is not controversial that currently colleges are seeking male students and it is thus slightly more favorable to be a male applicant.  (That does not mean, of course, that men who are admitted to elite colleges are less than superbly qualified.)  [/quote]

really depends on the college and the program. If you are male and trying to get into computer science or engineering programs, it is not at all favorable.[/quote]

I think that is accurate for some of the more specialized schools -- basically where the nature of the school is an engineering school, or the relatively few schools where you have to apply to a specific program and the specific program is heavily male.  So, for example, while there is a slight disadvantage in being a girl who is applying to an Ivy like Harvard or Yale (in which you are admitted to the general undergraduate college), there is not the same disadvantage when applying to a place like MIT or Cal Tech.  As to whether there is an advantage in being female at those places I don't know (but it might well be the case).  Because most liberal arts colleges do a general admissions approach (as at HYP) on balance the college application picture has gotten a little bit harder for girls.  But from the articles I've seen, being a male applicant is obviously not a "hook" of anywhere near the magnitude of legacy, URM, or recruited athlete status (for male and female applicants), and there's no "girl penalty" of the scale of the fairly well-documented "Asian penalty."[/quote]

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