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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Slightly off topic, but Va Tech, which always gets a number of TJ kids in engineering as well as some who turn down UVA for science,* seems to be revamping their admissions to diversify their student body. Princeton’s class of ‘22 (the gold standard for someone on another thread ?) is self-identified as 53% people of color. W&M is more women than men. How is the mission to diversify (which I actually think is worthwhile, so this is not a complaint) going to affect overall admissions at these three schools? What will the effect be statewide and in NOVA? Will it draw more men to W & M?

* though UVa is drawing some with new or revamped physics program[/quote]

To put in context, in the U.S., 56% of university undergraduates are female.  W&M 2017 entering class was 58% female, UVA was 56% female, and JMU 59% female, VCU was 62% female, and MWU was 65% female.  GMU is closest to 50/50 at 51% female.  Virginia Tech is the outlier at 43% female.

Technically-oriented schools tend to have a higher percentage of men.  Top privates tend to be close to 50/50.

The reality is girls do better in high school than boys.  And it is actually across all subjects and also most countries.

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