<p>A few different forums have threads discussing the recent article about the shortage of male students on campus, for instance: </p>
<p>Has this affected the way that admissions officers view male applicants? Are men being seen as URMs? Do any colleges publish average test scores of admitted male and female students?</p>
<p>Gender imbalances are still minuscule in terms of scores and grades relative to racial imbalances. I doubt even at Oberlin/Vassar/uber-liberal LAC males receive admissions advantages that make them tantamount to being a racially underrepresented minority.</p>
<p>With that said, males probably do have a leg up at some LACs. Females have a leg up at ITs. At the national university level, there are enough people where a 55/45 ratio won’t seriously disrupt anything. Besides, all these ratios really indicate is the obvious and already-known: females are better students than males because of differences in brain matter.</p>
<p>^lol agreed</p>
<p>I wouldn’t go as far to call ourselves URMs, but among many colleges, particularly LAC’s, we have the advantage in our favor. I encourage you to take a look at the common data sets for schools like Swarthmore and Brown and Pomona–you’ll notice that many many more female applicants apply to these schools, and the universities, aiming for a 50/50 gender balance, accepts a greater percentage of men. Other colleges with ratios like 60/40 such as Vassar most definitely favor men in admissions, though Vassar, I believe, does not publish there Common data set.</p>
<p>I may also note, that not all non-engineering colleges favor men. Dartmouth, for example, has very close to a 50/50 applicant pool.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.pomona.edu/institutionalresearch/collegedata/CDS2009_2010.htm[/url]”>http://www.pomona.edu/institutionalresearch/collegedata/CDS2009_2010.htm</a></p>
<p>You can crunch the numbers that Vassar posts for admissions rates.</p>
<p>Male acceptance rate=34%
Overall acceptance=21%</p>
<p>This is why I applied to many LAC’s. I do hope that we have AA for us this year. :D</p>
<p>I encourage all Asian-American males to consider LACs. =)</p>
<p>screw LACs, MIT and stereotypes ftw! :P</p>
<p>LOL. I looked at MIT’s admission stats. The overall admissions rate was reported to be around 9%. However, since the gender ratio is around 50-50, I suspected something fishy. As it turns out, acceptance rates for males are more like 6% with females having acceptance rates of around 12%. That’s actually a pretty big disparity.</p>
<p>Woah, 12%? That’s awesome. 
(I’m female if you couldn’t tell)</p>
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Well I encourage all African-American females to consider engineering schools/ITs. =)</p>
<p>Haha I don’t think they’re treated as “URMS”…but maybe given a .0001 leg up. As in, no big deal.</p>
<p>Eurasianboy, if you take a look at MIT’s admissions data here [MIT</a> Office of the Provost, Institutional Research](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/ir/cds/2009/c.html]MIT”>http://web.mit.edu/ir/cds/2009/c.html) you’ll notice that the MIT acceptance rate for women is 19.4% versus 8.7% for men. Yes, it’s dramatic, but we have little choice when we are born what gender we are, so don’t let the numbers deter you.</p>
<p>Like Kwu said, And as an asian-american male, I have advocated to many of my friends of the same gender and race to look beyond the Cornells, Carnegie Mellons, and JHUs, but beyond Pomona, LAC’s have, time after time, been ignored as a result of their weak name recognition. A pity as I really do find the environment at such schools both supportive and wildly friendly.</p>