<p>A guy at my school claimed the only reason girls get into prestigious colleges is because schools need more women for the male to female ratio. I don't think this is true, since it seems like MORE women are already at a lot of colleges (when you look at percentages) and my friend is just a typical lazy guy anyway. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>I remember reading an article about how there are less guys going to college. Can't find it though.</p>
<p>In many colleges at the highest level isn't there an overall imbalance in favor of females?
And yes, I would agree with the last point and tell the man that he needs to rethink his chatter.</p>
<p>I read some article in Time that more girls are going to college than boys because there's been an increase in discipline problems among boys....or something along those lines. Looking at my school, I believe it.</p>
<p>Guys win. Hands down.</p>
<p><em>takes a moment to read 1st post</em></p>
<p>I agree with this only in engineering schools like CalTech and Olin where girls are scarce. Actually it seems like in today's high schools girls are the ones who are dominating the AP scene and performing better academically. At the top colleges though, male and female ratios, for the most part, are around 50-50.</p>
<p>All I know is that there is an imbalance in GPA between the two; far more Black girls (almost ten times as many) make the honor roll as Black boys do.</p>
<p>I don't think a single guy in the senior class is going to a four-year. Most of the girls are. I don't know any guys who even care at all about college. They probably wouldn't get out of bed if their moms didn't make them.....but of course, my school offers a very limited perspective.</p>
<p>No actually you have the right idea.</p>
<p>What about in those college pressure-cooker prep schools -do more girls or guys go on to college there?</p>
<p>Overall, women do better than men academically. Thus, overall (and especially at LACs), women are at a disadvantage during college admissions. The exception seems to be the hardcore engineering/science schools, where the application numbers and yield rate for men is higher. Thus, at places like MIT and Caltech (though Caltech admissions is probably the closest thing there is to a pure-merit system, thus the male to female ratio of 2:1), being female gives you a decent edge.</p>
<p>I should also note that at HYPS, the difference is negligible. I believe Harvard last year, for the first time, had SLIGHTLY more women than men among the 09ers. Princeton, on the other hand, was 55% male for the class of 2009 (though that number is a record high in recent years; it's expected to drop for class of 2010).</p>
<p>Well, I want an LAC, so hopefully I don't get screwed because of the numbers.</p>
<p>I heard something like mens iq have more variety...like there are more men with the highest iq and more men with some of the lowest....wheres most woman are closer to same. I dont know if this is true so dont yell at me.</p>
<p>If yours are high enough it won't matter; they don't really gender-target.</p>
<p>well.......haha not really. i might take the ACT - the SAT kills me.</p>
<p>Yeah..I noticed that.. while there are more girls in the honors/APs, the boys tend to get the better grades in them.</p>
<p>I hate it when girls are sexist. "Typical lazy guy". Men have done many extraordinary things, probably more than women. And you don't hear us saying anything about them. =_=" Don't be sexist. They just tend to have more men in colleges before, now they need more women. That's the jist.</p>
<p>Here it is the reverse: the girls own the AP enrollment and the class rankings for GPA; 6 of the top 10 students are female, soon to be 8/10 in the class of 2008.</p>
<p>On average...don't girls do better than guys? (If someone mentioned this, sorry. I didn't read the other posts. :))</p>
<p>Well, the numbers are out there. If you look at the Common Data Sets, they give separate acceptance rates for males and females. In general, males tend to have a slightly higher acceptance rate at LACs.</p>
<p>Yes, girls do better than boys in this system. Such is not true in many parts of the world where pro-male educational systems exist (Japan, South Korea, India).</p>