<p>Do you think Notre Dame is one school where it is to your advantage to be a girl?</p>
<p>There is probably a slight advantage since the F/M ratio is 45%/55%</p>
<p>I disagree based upon the assumption that the school would like a 50/50 M/F ratio. If this is true, then for equally qualified applicants, the school should prefer to admit a boy to even up the ratio.</p>
<p>The exception would be admission to a field of study where women are the minority - like engineering.</p>
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<p>It’s 55% M to 45% F</p>
<p>This is a topic I have been concerned about since someone I know who is a ND alum and has some relationship to the admissions office told me that is more difficult to get into ND as a woman. He claimed that this is because ND does not have equal dorm space for men and women. He says there is simply less housing for women, so they are at some disadvantage. One of the admission counselors I spoke to seem to bristle at this questions and stated there is no gender bias toward women. However, if it is true that there are more residential spaces for men, doesn’t that mean that fewer women will be admitted if ND guarantees housing? The m/f ratio you posted means something.</p>
<p>Hmm I did not think of that. It would explain the discrepancy though</p>
<p>Oh…I thought for once the odds were in my favor :(</p>
<p>From the 2009-2010 Data Set (<a href=“https://www3.nd.edu/~instres/CDS/CDS_2009-2010.pdf[/url]”>https://www3.nd.edu/~instres/CDS/CDS_2009-2010.pdf</a>)</p>
<p>Male applicants: 7360
Male acceptances: 2183
Male acceptance rate: 29.66%
Male matriculation rate: 51.9%</p>
<p>Female applicants: 6997
Female acceptances: 1930
Female acceptance rate: 27.58%
Female matriculation rate: 48.13%</p>
<p>those percentages are hardly relevant, it is not like they are struggling to get women to apply. they deny plenty of qualified female prospective students.</p>
<p>The gendered nature of Notre Dame’s housing (and its commitment to all freshmen living on-campus) might alter how many men versus women Notre Dame can admit. By my calculations, there are ~3500 on-campus beds for men, and ~3000 for women, using the maximum capacities from this site: <a href=“http://orlh.nd.edu/halls/index.html;[/url]”>http://orlh.nd.edu/halls/index.html;</a> however, those numbers don’t necessarily tell the whole story, since men and women may move off-campus at different rates. (I’m inclined to conjecture that men are more likely to move off-campus, but I have no actual data to back this up.)</p>
<p>On the whole, while it would probably be ideal for Notre Dame to have more equal numbers of male and female beds, I have to wonder how significant the 500 bed difference actually is. That really comes out to about 125 beds per admitted class; for perspective, the admitted pool is 4000 students…</p>