<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Is it easier for a boy or a girl to get in one of the nation's top colleges?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>DMOC</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Depends on the college.</p>
<p>For engineering = girls</p>
<p>I assume that if a college accepts a 50-50 ratio, then it’s easier for boys but for something like 40-60 then girls?</p>
<p>Not true… It depends on the individual college’s admissions policy. For example, compare Caltech and MIT. One might suppose that the applicant body to these colleges are similar, yet Caltech is 70-30 M-F while MIT is 50-50 M-F. Hence, it can be assumed that MIT admissions favour females at least a bit, while Caltech cares less.</p>
<p>I think fiona’s assumption is the opposite of reality.</p>
<p>What do you mean then?</p>
<p>I agree with Fiona, MIT favors girls a bit more (but of course we are talking about domestic students). For international its a whole other story.</p>
<p>Silverturtle is wrong, fiona is right.</p>
<p>MIT has a 21% admit rate for women, 9% for men.</p>
<p>[MIT</a> Office of the Provost, Institutional Research](<a href=“Home - MIT Institutional Research”>Home - MIT Institutional Research)</p>
<p>CalTech the same year had a 13% admit rate for men, 29% for women.</p>
<p><a href=“http://finance.caltech.edu/budget/cds2008.pdf[/url]”>http://finance.caltech.edu/budget/cds2008.pdf</a></p>
<p>In general, it’s easier for men.</p>
<p>But it still depends on the college.</p>
<p>For Fall 2008 entry (a year after the numbers for MIT and CalTech), Harvey Mudd had a 30% admit rate for men, 53% for women.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.hmc.edu/files/institutionalresearch/CDS%202008-09/CDS_C_Admission_2009.pdf[/url]”>http://www.hmc.edu/files/institutionalresearch/CDS%202008-09/CDS_C_Admission_2009.pdf</a></p>
<p>For Tech and Engineering schools, women are almost always favored. For most LACs, men are heavily favored. At HYP, doesn’t matter. But many universities, like William and Mary, favor men.</p>
<p>The admission rates don’t correlate to a college favoring one gender over another. </p>
<p>But even if you think they do, then the data posted by danas contradict what you posted.</p>
<p>It’s much harder for boys to get into the top colleges, particularly math and science programs.</p>
<p>Consider: </p>
<p>There are nearly twice as many boys as girls who score above 750 on the Math SAT.</p>
<p>There are over twice as many boys as girls who score an 800 on Math</p>
<p>There are also slightly more boys than girls who score in the 700s on Critical Reading, and this discrepancy grows as you move towards 800.</p>
<p>A 1420 is at the 98th percentiles for girls but only at the 96th percentile for boys.</p>
<p>Source: [SAT</a> Reasoning Data Tables - For Interpreting SAT Scores](<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/testing/sat-reasoning/scores/sat-data-tables]SAT”>http://professionals.collegeboard.com/testing/sat-reasoning/scores/sat-data-tables)</p>
<p>It’s amazing what happens when you bring facts into a debate…</p>
<p>^ are you suggesting that boys are smarter than girls? Egads!</p>
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<p>Well they do score higher on most standardized tests…if you take aptitude tests at face value, then it would be impossible not to conclude that men are smarter than women.</p>
<p>Secondly, why would it be so bad if men were smarter than women?</p>
<p>He is suggesting that it’s harder for boys than girls to get into college.</p>
<p>He never spoke about relative intelligences.</p>
<p>Men, in most cases, because woman tend to have a bigger population on college campuses.</p>
<p>Well, I am male so I was just curious about this fact.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies, all. I think looking at the acceptance rate for each gender is the best idea for this question.</p>
<p>I’ll just go back and do more studying. :)</p>
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<p>Did you even read the original post? It said “TOP colleges.”</p>
<p>If you looked at the statistics I posted, you would know that men have a much tougher time getting into the top colleges.</p>