<p>So, I heard a rumor from a fairly reputable source that any and all girls on the Waiting List at Exeter were accepted, and that very few boys have been. Can any girls who were on the list confirm or dispute this?</p>
<p>I hear that some schools are lowering the requirement for female students, because they believe that co-ed schools opperate smoothly with a 50-50 split. This was a statement released from my school that all non-public schools are following this trend.</p>
<p>wow um other than that being a sexist statement, you’re right, schools do try to make it 50/50</p>
<p>I question how your school knows that “all non-public schools” are lowering their standards for female students. From what I’ve seen, no admissions office would ever release this information. Yes, they try to keep it close to 50/50. This means that if 70% (arbitrary number) of the applications they receive are from male students, the competition may be slightly tougher. It doesn’t mean that the schools are actively lowering their standards, simply that, in that particular year, a qualified female is more likely to get in than an equally qualified male.
If dtl42’s information is accurate, that’s probably exactly what happened: more male students accepted the offer of admission than female students, so they needed to pull female students from the waitlist. Unless you’re arguing that the female students on the waitlist are less qualified than the males on the waitlist, I’m not sure why you felt the need to post such a sexist statement.</p>
<p>Let’s argue that theoretically there were 25 girls on the wait list for 9th grade for Exeter back in March. Now that it is August, it is likely that most of them have decided to give up their wait list spots and have made other plans. There may only now be three girls keeping their place on the list. So “accepting all” on the wait list may not be as big a deal as it sounds. And, sometimes a school does not have an exactly equal number of beds for boys and girls, despite trying to keep everything as close to 50/50 as possible.</p>
<p>And, “a rumor from a fairly reputable source” is still a rumor. Believe it if you want, but doesn’t sound like much to me.</p>
<p>At Andover, it’s the opposite; we have fewer boys applying, so admissions is slightly more difficult for girls. The admissions office struggles a little to keep it 50-50; right now, in all the grades, girls have a small edge. I guess it just depends on the school.</p>
<p>I read that to mean that Italianboarder was simply offering what he (or maybe Italian’s a she!) had heard. I didn’t think it was an endorsement of the idea.</p>
<p>As a woman, I was far more insulted this evening. I went to hear Gil Shaham play with the Philidelphia Orchestra. The guest conductor was a woman. The announcer went through a litany of accolades with the audience applauding after each item. But the largest applause, by FAR, was when the (female) announcer said that the conductor was the first woman to head a major American orchestra.</p>
<p>I found that very insulting. The biggest accomplishment was that she had achieved all that she had while at the same time overcoming that fact that she’s a woman??? And the loudest cheers came from women!!! go figure.</p>
<p>Sorry for the rant.</p>
<p>Yet…anyone with a copy of the Princeton SSAT prep book can look at the percentile tables. Boys score higher than girls. In other words, a boy has to have a higher scaled score than a girl to land in the same percentile. I have no explanation for WHY that is, nor do I propose one, but “facts are stubborn things.” The fact itself is not sexist at all. An attempt at explaining the gap in terms of native intelligence by gender is, of course, very sexist.</p>
<p>I am a male. My school released it as a publication to justify why female applicants take different tests then male applicants… This was done so that “scores can be modified to equally compare applicants”. They even said that standards are lower for girls, because:
- Not as many girls apply
- Not as many girls with high scores pick my school(Compared to the number of boys)</p>
<p>And this type of stuff shouldn’t be looked on as sexist. Really, it is happening and I believe that if schools wish to do it they can. I don’t really support it, I think that the best applicants should get in for what they can control… Not things out of their control. </p>
<p>About neatoburrito’s comment… The reason that the boys score is higher and that the percentiles decline more by each question missed is because on average more boys get perfect scores then girls. And girls scores are more consistent(You won’t have as many girls bomb it and you won’t have as many girls ace it). So if you are a boy the scores are BETTER then girls and just as WORSE as girls(The range is larger).</p>
<p>This is all statistical… Doesn’t mean it applies to you. Doesn’t mean it is right.</p>
<p>neatoburrito-- I don’t understand why that was so insulting to you. Being a conductor as a female is very hard because of prejudice (notice how there aren’t many women composers compared to male composers?)</p>
<p>italianboarder-- I was just pointing out how your statement (not necessarily what you MEANT to say) is sexist; phrasing is important. The way you phrase it in the first post, you make it sound like females are dumber. But your 2nd post obviously explains it w/ the statistics of applicants.</p>
<p>Anyways, for SSAT scores, I read in the book “up your score” that standardized tests are biased because boys are more likely to speed through and guess than girls.</p>
<p>That’s fascinating. If Exeter is reaching that deeply into their waitlist, they must have been rejected by a LOT of girls. I wonder why girls so heavily chose against Exeter this year.</p>
<p>I don’t think this can possibly be true.</p>
<p>Class of 2011 had 176 people attend.</p>
<p>Class of 2012 has 200. There is no way they reached far into the waitlist, there were far more applicants this year as well. I think your fairly reputable source is probably mistaken.</p>
<p>I don’t think it is true, either.</p>
<p>maybe Exeter accepted less girls because they are tighter on space in the dorms for girls…</p>
<p>it’s not true…I was on the waitlist and I wasn’t accepted. :'(</p>
<p>Thank you for the confirmation. Have you heard anything at all from them? I haven’t heard a word.</p>
<p>My son was on both the Exeter and Andover 9th grade boy’s wait list. We removed his name on June 25th. At that time, we were told by the admissions officer that NO ONE had been taken from the wait list and that it was very likely that no one would be taken later. Both schools said that they were currently over enrolled.</p>
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