<p>Can anyone explain why Plan II's incoming freshman class always seems to have a male/female ratio of 40%/60%? This seems kind of unbalanced, yet it's been going on for the past 4 or 5 years according to Plan II's released stats.</p>
<p>Note that this isn't some sort of reverse-discrimination-lawsuit-pending thing. I'm just wondering what might account for this disparity (male applying to Plan II, here.)</p>
<p>It feels more like 80% to 20%</p>
<p>I don’t know. Why are the students in the engineering honors program mostly male?
Or look at the engineering honor societies.
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<p>well, admissions into plan II is highly dependent on the essays, which is an area that females tend to excel in while males are more math-based.</p>
<p>But don’t females get a boost in engineering admissions? As far as I know it’s common at other colleges; I can’t find any data for Cockrell’s applicants, only its enrolling class.</p>
<p>Plan II’s male applicants actually have a lower admittance rate, at ~14.5% vs. ~16% for females.</p>
<p>When D1 and I went to one of the Plan II info sessions last fall, Jennifer Scalora, the Plan II Admissions Director, acknowledged that there are more women than men admitted to Plan II, but that Plan II admissions was/is indeed merit-based. She went on to say that she did not foresee any changes to their admissions policies to balance out the ratio. D2 and I will be visiting in a couple of weeks and will look forward to hearing if anything has changed.</p>
<p>Not sure about any other departments.</p>
<p>It’s more like 2/3 women. The applicant pool is usually around 2/3 women, so it makes sense that more women will be admitted. It’s not a vast anti-man conspiracy.</p>
<p>Males are more likely to apply to engineering honors or bhp than plan II. As the previous poster noted, the applicant pool is majority female by quite a considerable amount.</p>
<p>That said, yes, engineering programs generally do give females a minority edge, but liberal arts programs are unlikely to do so for males.</p>