<p>So a lot of the guys at my school got into great places, many ed. The girls, on the other hand, are getting rejected in droves. People with nearly perfect GPA's and good board scores are not getting into schools that I would have considered matches and even safeties. I know that the # of girls applying to schools is high, but what does this mean for the next years of classes. Will they have to be an Olympian or a Nobel Prize winner or a wealthy legacy to get in?</p>
<p>I can only speak anecdotally, as well, but at my D's school, the girls are getting in to great schools this year, while the boys are getting deferred/rejected. You're right about the girl numbers, though. We'll know more at the end of the month!</p>
<p>I've noticed a lot of this in my school with the LAC's. The girls in my school mostly apply to LAC's and many get rejected, while the few boys that apply to LAC's are accepted. Because the smaller liberal arts schools generally have more females than males (especially at Vassar, with the 60/40 split), I think the schools are trying to even things out more at this point. So I guess if handed the choice, adcoms would rather accept males with slightly lower qualifications than females have the credentials the school requires.</p>
<p>I have boy girl twins, so you can imagine where our family is at with this...</p>
<p>soproud, I don't envy you.</p>
<p>most schools are looking to increase their male population. also, fewer males are applying.</p>
<p>William and Mary only accepts 26% of girls but takes 44% of boys. They obviously want the student body to even out.</p>
<p>Same thing for MIT except it is opposite. 22% admist for girls, 10% for boys</p>
<p>It happened last year when my daughter was applying to schools. She thought guys just got together and made a pact to keep their stats low because schools would generally take 50% guys anyway. Meanwhile girls just never caught on, they just keep on pushing the bench mark higher and higher. So ladies, maybe it's time to re-think your strategy.:)</p>
<p>Caltech this year has been favorable to girls but I am not sure that
the trend is continuing at MIT given they have focused on gender
parity for some years now. We will know for sure when they release
the stats for this year.</p>
<p>At my public HS, girls and boys are faring equally well/badly.
LACs seem to prefer boys, Engineering schools seem to slightly
be in favor of girls and the top 5 prefer "other":p?</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Everyone at my school seems to want to go to Stanford, so quite a few applied EA. A lot of the girls got in, but none of the guys.</p>
<p>Guys are suffering at top 10s here.</p>
<p>generally speaking, white girls are and will continue to flood the admissions offices with their applications in large numbers. boys, less, and students from URM the lowest. so, as all schools work to balance out their demographics, and create the most appealing stat sheet in the ranking guides, you can see why the girls will retain a significant disadvantage for some time to come. this will be especially true of weaker students.</p>
<p>I think it slightly favors guys everywhere (except maybe HYP- where they have the best applicants of either gender), with a lot of favor for guys in LACs and favor for girls in tech schools. So guys have an advantage everywhere except for MIT and Caltech/ that kind of hardcore math/tech school, which is a very small percentage of colleges. I think that's silly, they're not disadvantaged at all, but I don't think right now the favor is such a big deal except at LACs.</p>
<p>Do men or boys have better chances?</p>
<p>No idea what's going to happen with the girl/boy split at bigger-name schools, since the boys even applying to those from my school are in short supply. A boy with stats roughly equal to mine is applying to Boston University, as am I; it'll be interesting to see if we get in.</p>
<p>With UConn, though, a boy who is #2 in the class was accepted with a scholarship, but not invited to the honors program. I got into the honors program, and I think at least one other person (besides the valedictorian) from our school did, despite being a few spots lower in the rankings.</p>
<p>Ah, yes. Male affirmative action. It really is a big issue at some schools. At Middlebury, there were 35% more female applicants than male, and yet females make up only a slight majority of the campus- 52%.<br>
I go to a girls' school, so thankfully I haven't had to deal with that competition, but it really does impact admissions at many colleges.</p>
<p>salamander: BU's female/male population is disproportionately (<em>cough</em>favorably<em>cough</em>) tilted towards the former, so the percentages of male acceptance are probably higher than the percent of females admitted. Don't despair, though: they probably have the increase the number of females admitted to account not only for people applying to a zillion colleges, but for females applying to better and better schools (and thus they have to accept more, anticipating lower yield).</p>
<p>You can actually see this in AP classes (and thus, people applying to top colleges) themselves. Among the AP English classes at my school, there are 5 guys and 18 girls. In AP Biology, there are 6 guys and 18 girls. In AP European History, there are 6 guys and 13 girls. Only in French is the ratio somewhat similar: 7 guys and 9 girls. I'm not sure what the ratios are for Spanish and Calculus (only know my class for Calc), but it is clear that the upper-level classes are populated mostly by young women.</p>
<p>Are the apps up at all female colleges as a result of this?</p>
<p>do you mean only female, as in Sweet Briar, for example? i think it depends on the school. if say, Barnard..they'll always be up. if you mean a good, tho lower tiered, less urban location, i'd say their apps would remain lowish.</p>