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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Coming from a top private:

-Admission to top schools is MUCH easier for boys than girls. It pretty much SUCKS to be a female applicant in 2025. Boys this year from our school are getting in with stats way below the girls. (I have 2 boys in upcoming admissions years so I don't say this from a point of sour grapes as an only girls mom or anything)

-Being a legacy with parents who are also VIPs or big donors is huge. I mean duh.  But wow, it just is.

-ED is such a crap shoot and I'm not sure how to play it best. My kid went for a top10 and lost (deferred) and now I have no idea how far down she'll fall. She's hoping for RD decisions to schools where classmates with GPAs much lower than hers got in ED (like 3.9 RD vs 3.4 ED). What is the right/best way to play ED? I don't know. TBD in our case.

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We are seeing the boys have a much easier time than girls this year too. 
It’s really hard for girls.[/quote]

Opposite seems to be true at our public school. All the girls are getting in at the Ivies and other top 10[/quote]

Same. Female candidates tend to dominate at our school in early rounds. We've heard it's because girls are stronger earlier in HS due to brain/maturity/etc. and ready to write deep, mature essays prior to the summer before senior year. They are conscientous and focused and their early applications are fully formed. They're also more risk adverse and more determined to "lock in" a prestigious option that's attainable rather than spin the wheel on the randomness of RD rounds. There's also a bunch of great and prestigious options that have strong bumps in early rounds for women-only colleges: Wellesley, Barnard, Smith, Bryn Mawhr etc.

Boys generally at our school (ofc there are some exceptions) want the risk and rush of multiple RD choices. They aren't as hung up on one dream option or prestige. They are also peaking later in HS and benefit from taking the test later or adding in senior fall grades (sometimes) and most need MORE TIME to think and write better, deeper essays. They are not ready to go in the summer before grade 12. So they need to wait for RD. The boys that do apply ED at our school do it only because of better odds: but their essays and applications are rushed and don't compare well to those by female peers.

Smart female students know their best odds are in ED rounds before colleges consider gender balancing towards the end in RD/waitlists. That's when odds tip more towards boys. In Early rounds, odds are strongly in female students favor![/quote]

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