<p>One LAC we toured had something close to a 70/30 split (women vs men) in the student body. Another parent of a son in our tour group asked if it was easier for a male to get in because of this. She said she’d heard merit $$ goes up for males, too, to help reel them in. Referred to this as the “pen!s package.” At that point, the group was laughing so hard I don’t think we really got a clear answer to the question.</p>
<p>I think our S2’s gender and living in an underrepresented area of the state (for that univ) helped him get into his big state u. His univ. was originally founded as a teaching college so has traditionally been heavily female.</p>