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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Quite a few are similar.  42% of UNC applicants last year were male and 39% or enrolled students were male.  39% of W&M applicants last year were male and 39% of enrolled students were male.

UVA first years in Arts and Sciences in Fall 2020 were 39% male.  W&M has similar majors to UVA Arts and Sciences.

Engineering schools tend to be heavily male.  UVA first year engineering last year was 66% male.  UNC does not have engineering.

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You’re looking at the wrong data.  The question isn’t the percentage of enrolled male students compared to applicants.  It’s the percentage of admitted male students compared to applicants.  That’s where W&M is the outlier.

It’s called Math 101.  [/quote]

If you look at it on a percentage basis (Math 101) even for acceptance rate only, it isn't that clear.  W&M's acceptance rate for men is 1.16X higher than that of females.  Brown's is 1.41X higher.  Yale's is 1.22X higher.  Emory's is 1.19X higher.  Vanderbilt's is 1.15X higher.

And many schools now have significantly higher percentages of applicants and enrollment from female students.[/quote]

I don't know whether your math actually makes sense, but even if it does it's not relevant.  W&M is a public school.  All of the others you have listed are private.  Private schools can do whatever they want.  Public schools cannot.

Law 101[/quote]

You don't know law either.  If they receive federal funding, and almost all "private" schools do, Federal laws will apply.

No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
-Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972[/quote]

Tell that to Wellesley, Smith, Bryn Mawr, Morehouse, Wabash, etc.  "Title IX's prohibition on discrimination in admissions applies only to . . . public institutions of undergraduate higher education . . . [and] does not apply to private undergraduate colleges."

https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/t9-rel-exempt/index.html#:~:text=The%20prohibition%20on%20discrimination%20in,receives%20any%20Federal%20financial%20assistance.

So, yea, I kinda do know law.[/quote]

Not really.  Or you just don't understand federal funding.[/quote]

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