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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Very late to this discussion, but these figures help debunk a common claim, that colleges have millions of applicants that could be successful at their college. If so, why aren't they going 50-50 male-female, which they know would be beneficial to them because it's what students themselves want? I'm guessing is that the female applicants really are better qualified than the males, so to to get to 50-50 they'd have to dip too far down into the male applicant pool. Maybe there's a better explanation, but I can't think of it.

[quote=Anonymous]Sample gender breakdown by College:

UCLA: F:60%, M:39%
NYU: F:59%, M:41%
UC Davis: F:59%, M:40%
Georgetown: F:58%, M:40%
Boston U: F:58%, M:42%
UW: F:57%, M:43%
UCSB: F:57%, M:42%
Emory: F:57%, M:43%
UC Berkeley: F:55%, M:43%
Tufts: F:55%, M:45%
Amherst College: F:54%, M:44%

https://machronicle.com/colleges-face-widening-gender-imbalance/
https://www.uvm.edu/magazine/news/where-are-men
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/30/metro/men-college-campus-enrollment-declines/

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Not necessarily. I know a top notch kid who got rejected from Georgetown. He ended up at UCLA. So, why would he get rejected when he clearly was qualified and ended up at even more unbalanced school? Georgetown was his top choice and he took the rejection hard.[/quote]
Because Georgetown is a very underrated school by US News and a harder admit than people think (and all California state schools are overrated. But a male applicant isn’t really going to be helped much for usual suspect dominant male majors like business or econ, if that was the case…[/quote]

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