<p>The BDH reported the totals along w/ demographics today
<a href=“http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/paper472/news/2006/02/27/CampusNews/Class.Of.2010.Pool.Is.Larger.More.Diverse-1639013.shtml?sourcedomain=www.browndailyherald.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com[/url]”>http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/paper472/news/2006/02/27/CampusNews/Class.Of.2010.Pool.Is.Larger.More.Diverse-1639013.shtml?sourcedomain=www.browndailyherald.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com</a></p>
<p>Tuition up 5% too.
<a href="http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2005-06/05-083.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2005-06/05-083.html</a></p>
<p>depressing numbers - good news is that giving is up also.</p>
<p>Hmmm ... I note that the gender imbalance is widening. Last year, 42% of applicants were male; this year, only 39% of applicants are male.</p>
<p>more females are applying to college than males nationally--the stat doesn't reflect a trend specific to brown</p>
<p>similarly tuition will rise 4-6% at all of the ivies this year due to sky-rocketing increases in energy and healthcare costs</p>
<p>I beg to differ. The Brown applicant pool is far more heavily female - over 61% - than any other Ivy. </p>
<p>At Harvard, the applicant group was 51.6% female this year - the highest ever.</p>
<p>I'm not surprised. On the day of my interview with Brown, I met two other applicants, and they all were female. I'm even female too. Why is Brown attracting females much more than males? Is it because of liberal education?</p>
<p>Harvard 2009 was slightly over 50% male.</p>
<pre><code>Cornell 2009 was almost exactly 50-50
Dartmouth had very slightly more men
Princeton was 53-47% male - for 2008 anyway
Stanford matriculants were 52-48% male for 2009.
Yale matriculants were 52-48% male; applicants, 53-47% female
</code></pre>
<p>brown experienced steady increases in apps the last few years--much more so than several of the other schools listed</p>
<p>obviously, the same pools of males and females continued to apply, but many of the new pools were predominantly female--this is particularly true of the 12% and 14.1% increases in latinos and native americans respectively</p>
<p>either way, it doesn't much matter...though, since big larry summers decided to hang his hat and "Byerly" has less to do these days, he may "beg to differ" on the relative importance</p>
<p>Byerly . . .</p>
<p>Do you know percentage of males/females who matriculated at Brown in the Class of 2009?</p>
<p>51% women, 49% men</p>
<p>Well Byerly is a Harvard guy, and we know how they feel about female intelligence....</p>
<p>Low blow, sorry folks.</p>
<p>Oh man. that means higher acceptance rate for guys!</p>
<p>Yes, there is a higher acceptance rate for men at Brown in an effort to mitigate the gender imbalance, although it as not as pronounced as the edge given to females at MIT, which has the opposite problem - an excess of male applicants.</p>
<p>Last year, at Brown, the admit rate was 19% for male applicants, and 14.8% for females. By accepting a smaller fraction of the female applicants, Brown reduced the 57-43% female margin among applicants to a 53-47 % edge among matriculants.</p>
<p>This year, it remains to be seen if the admit rate bias in favor of males continues, or is extended, with the applicant group becoming female by an even larger 61-39% margin.</p>
<p>byerly posits and often inflates numbers based upon stats he reads in college dailies</p>
<p>the overall admit rate last year was 14.6% --as usual, when you check the facts, his numbers don't add up
<a href="http://www.browndailyherald.com/media/paper472/news/2005/04/05/CampusNews/Decisions.Mailed.To.Class.Of.2009-912678.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.browndailyherald.com%5B/url%5D">http://www.browndailyherald.com/media/paper472/news/2005/04/05/CampusNews/Decisions.Mailed.To.Class.Of.2009-912678.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.browndailyherald.com</a></p>
<p>The numbers I report come from USNews, D-Circle, and relate to 2008, for which the reported admit rate was 16.56% overall.</p>
<p>The 2009 numbers are not materially different with respect to the topic at hand - namely, the gender imbalance.</p>
<p>As you discovered to your chagrin a few weeks ago, the Brown Daily Herald has a tendency to screw up admissions stories, and you cite it here at your peril!</p>
<p>...</p>
<p>chagrin?</p>
<p>if there were a lot of women applicants will they accept more men? will this help my chances of getting in if im a male?</p>
<p>I think so.</p>
<p>Some have speculated that colleges falling short of male applicants may, at some point, give them an acknowledged "affirmative action" edge.</p>
<p>Its not quite there yet for males at Brown, to the extent, for example, that it exists for females at CalTech and MIT, but it may happen if the gender gap widens further.</p>