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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's some bizarre rationalization and bias on this thread. I have 2 boys and was surprised as we started gathering info about colleges about how skewed the gender balance is. For liberal arts colleges, it's particularly true for liberal arts schools but it also is the case for some of the larger universities my son is looking at: AU, BU, GWU, Univ of Washington, UC Davis, etc etc. At most schools, the gender balance is about 55-45, but at some it is as skewed as 60-40. I looked at the numbers for applications, acceptances, and enrollment, and there isn't a big difference in most cases. So no bump for male applicants. I have to admit that I was a little surprised by this  since there is a lot of talk about 'holistic admissions' and the active efforts of many schools to build student bodies with racial, ethnic, geographic, socioeconomic, etc diversity.[/quote]

There is absolutely a bump for male applicants; it's just that they can't make it 50/50 without tanking their stats.  And they don't need it to be 50/50 to have diversity.  It's not like they are admitting poor kids at rates equal to their prevalence in the population, for example.

It is less true of schools known to be very focused on engineering and football, and more true of liberal arts schools.  [/quote]

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