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<p>Well, I’ve never seen that it is at “most colleges” as you say. For instance, I haven’t seen anything suggesting that it happens at state schools, except perhaps major specific gender balancing for english majors. If you can find evidence that male admits at state flagships have lower stats than female admits, please feel to post that. Certainly, it doesn’t happen at the ivies and is not relevant for the top-stat male as there are 20% more males than females in the top SAT range (2250-2400), the regime that is most relevant to ivy admission. But as I’ve said before, I don’t agree with it. I think they could deal with gender imbalance in a more creative way, perhaps by hosting dances and socials between schools. Or by dealing with the source of the problem instead of trying to socially engineer it. And by the way, I’ve seen people come up with crazy reasons for why males do worse on average in high school as well. One “expert” in a major magazine like Newsweek or Time theorized that it was because they have to learn sitting down in school, which is unnatural because they pee standing up. I’m still trying to figure that one out! </p>
<p>While female advantage seems to be a popular complaint on these boards, male advantage does seem to be the only thing the press complains about. And every time it comes up people act like they found this special gem. You certainly never hear about gender AA at tech colleges in the press.</p>