<p>For the ones that have a skewed female to male ratio (like 60 to 40), do the men have an "easier" or better chance in admission or does it not matter?</p>
<p>Supposedly male applicants have it easier at schools that are heavily female.</p>
<p>Depends on the program, some play that game, some don’t.</p>
<p>I think it also depends on the male/female ratio in the applicant pool.</p>
<p>You can calculate this yourself for individual schools. Search for
Common Data Set YourSchoolName
Not all schools publish the Common Data Set, but if they do then you can figure it out. In the document or web page, find the section titled “FIRST-TIME, FIRST-YEAR (FRESHMAN) ADMISSION”. The first several entries are the number of females and males who applied who were offered admission.</p>
<p>For example, [Carleton</a> College: Institutional Research and Assessment: Common Data Set (CDS)](<a href=“http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/ira/CDS1/]Carleton”>http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/ira/CDS1/) has a link several inches down for the CDS for 2010. In the document pointed to by that link, you will find that 767 women applied and 2700 were accepted. 767 / 2700 = 28%. 692 men applied and 2084 were admitted, for 33%. So there APPEARS to be a SLIGHT bias for men (although of course it could be that all the men who applied were more qualified, or history shows that men are more likely to choose not to go there when offered admission…)</p>
<p>The next few items are the number of those who actually enrolled. 274 women + 255 men = 529 total. 255 men / 529 total students gives an enrolling class for that year of 48% male.</p>
<p>You can also go to the College Board to get the percentage male & female overall.</p>
<p>There’s a lot of other good stuff to be found in the CDS - importance of various factors in admission, number of students come back for sophomore year, SAT score ranges, etc. Check it out! :D</p>