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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These gender-disparate application specifics are not unique to W&M.  My older child applied to an Ivy a couple of years ago and the admissions and acceptance rates were wildly different by gender. Pretty much true everywhere.[/quote]

I don't believe for a minute that this is true.  It's easy enough to verify, though.  Identify the Ivy and provide a link to the numbers.

Yes, many colleges have more women applying than men.  But few have W&M's disparity, and most respond simply by accepting more women.    [/quote]

I stand somewhat corrected.  I went back and looked, and Brown does have a lot more women than men apply and seems to favor men in admissions.  But none of the others do.

So, yea, W&M isn't "unique," but what happens there isn't "pretty much true everywhere" either. [/quote]

WM isn’t unique if you are looking at SLACs. And with the undergrad focus and smaller student body, it is very SLAC like.  The admissions pools are heavily women and admissions favor men. Maybe not at the top 5 or so. But, mostly.  Women usually have a tougher road at most SLACs. OTOH, they may have an easier road at National Us in STEM and engineering. [/quote]

William & Mary is not a private LAC.  Its undergraduate enrollment alone is nearly 6500, around the same size as Duke and Georgetown.  And, yes, it is unique among public schools when it comes to favoring men.  So much so that they've had to pull back because what they were doing before was borderline illegal -- that's how extreme the favoritism was.  Private LACs are more free to discriminate by gender than public colleges.[/quote]

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