<p>If a school had 68% female and 32% male would it be easier for a male to get accepted?</p>
<p>Yes...........</p>
<p>Generally, yes. Most colleges really want a better balance than that, so they may admit males who are a bit less qualified than the females they will admit.</p>
<p>sounds likely... especially if that school is historically female, like vassar</p>
<p>Hmmm....way more girls than guys...sounds like a good college to me :p</p>
<p>Okay great! Because I'm an African American Male applying to NYU, and we have 3 other African American GIRLS applying from our school, I just wanted to see if I would have the advantage</p>
<p>You might get a slight advantage because you're a boy in the overall college admissions process, but that doesn't mean you have an advantage over the girls in your class. The two aren't really related.</p>
<p>That ratio is almost as bad as the ratio of women to men applying to veterinary school (70% Women 30% Men).</p>
<p>I don't understand what you mean...</p>
<p>It means more women apply to veterinary school than men.</p>
<p>Not his post, I don't understand enderkin's...I will have an advantage overall but not over the girls from my school?</p>
<p>It's a probability problem...you are not compared to the girls from your school, you are considered in the entire applicant pool. If the school was REQUIRED to accept one applicant from your school then Yes, you would have an advantage. In this case, you do not have an advantage as Enderkin said, the two are not related.</p>
<p>Oh okay, I thought applications were split up between schools.</p>
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<p>Lolz, agree.</p>
<p>Re Post #11.</p>
<p>Nope, it doesn't work that way.</p>
<p>Actually, the answer to the OP's question is no. He has a better chance at a school with an equal male/female ratio, since more females apply in general. </p>
<p>For example, for NYU (38% male, 62% female, from their common data set):</p>
<p>4,885 male students accepted out of 13,815 applied, for acceptance rate of 35%.
7957 female students accepted out of 21,633 applied, for an acceptance rate of 37%. Men actually have a slightly lower acceptance rate than women, not vice versa.</p>
<p>Compare that to Pomona (50% male, 50% female):</p>
<p>460 male students accepted out of 2103 applied, for an acceptance rate of 22%.
503 female students accepted out of 3336 applied, for an acceptance rate of 15%. The acceptance rate for men is much higher than for women.</p>
<p>Assuming male and female applicants are otherwise equivalent (which may or may not be true), it would be relatively easier for a male to get in to Pomona than a female, but not to NYU.</p>
<p>That means nothing, women are more qualified that applied.</p>