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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Test Optional admissions.

Trend will reverse as standardized tests come back. [/quote]

This.

Also the college board revamping the scoring to significantly favor woman[b] by weighting the language portion double compared to the math portion.[/b]

This was done explicity to create this result, to increase the number of women in collge above the number of men in college.

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What does this mean exactly?[/quote]

The college board changed scoring a while back from weighing math and verbal equally, to weighing verbal as 2/3 of the SAT score.

This was done to explicity close the gender gap in SAT scores,  ie elevate young women over young men.

Prior to this, when math and verbal were weighted 50/50, young men significantly overperformed young women on the SAT. (As a group, not necessarily individually)

This change would have affected young men applying to college over the past decade or so.[/quote]
You are referring to the period between 2009 and 2015 when the SAT composite score was out of 2400. The test changed back to half math/half verbal in 2016. All current college students who took the SAT would have done so after 2016.

(The National Merit Scholarship Program is still based on a selection index that is 2/3 verbal, 1/3 math.)

I agree (with whichever PPs) that test optional admission policies and the associated drive to weigh GPA more heavily is a major source of the current gender imbalance at top colleges. Males, on average, have lower GPAs than females, as AOs know well.[/quote]

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