<p>Still means my chances at Brown will be lower (due to the applicant pool).</p>
<p>I had no idea Brown had more female than male applicants...I guess I was just instinctively drawn to qualities that other women look for in a college.</p>
<p>Let's hope we all hear good news, regardless of race/gender!</p>
<p>amen to that</p>
<p>wait, how does a school with more females than males look less appealing to males? I see no logic in the statement the OP took from an article.</p>
<p>yea i agree</p>
<p>when I say brown people, i mean people of color. Not "Brown University".</p>
<p>None of us mind having more girls around :D.</p>
<p>this is the most disturbingly gender-normative conversation i've ever read. "instinctively drawn" to brown because of your gender? come on, child, let yourself out of your cozy little box.
brown has some of the top scientists in the country. one of them is even a woman (anne fausto-sterling), imagine that! go tell larry summers. there is an increasing focus on the sciences with each passing year, and a good part of the plan for academic enrichment is aimed at increasing funding for those fields.
we don't "not have grades" and even if we did have an amhers-esque system, there's no reason to think that women would be more drawn to that as compared to men.<br>
that being said, brown usually keeps, at worst, a 54/46 gender balance in the admitted class, and the campus breaks down as approx 52/48 total.
if any of you get in to brown, and if you decide to come, take use of the summer to challenge your ideas about race, class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, etc, before you get to Providence. please. and thank you.</p>
<p>If brown were 60% female and I were applying now, it would be the tipping point for me in FAVOR of Brown (I am a guy). How is more women around a bad thing??</p>
<p>As I understand the concern, it is that -</p>
<ol>
<li><p>some males may shy away from a school where the "culture" is perceived as excessively "feminine", and</p></li>
<li><p>some females, wishing to be in a co-educational environment, may shy away from a school where the gender balance "tips" too heavily in the female direction.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Where gender is involved, "enrollment consultants" (presumably based on polling and other statistical analysis) see 60:40 as the "tipping point."</p>
<p>Similarly, these consultants have advised schools against filling more than half the seats in the class via early admissions programs, lest potential "regular" round applicants be discouraged about their diminished odds of admission and look elsewhere.</p>
<p>This is why so many schools looking to ED programs to boost the yield rate aim to stay close to - but just under - the magic 50% line; yes, it would boost yield further to fill 60% of the class via ED, but the school might suffer offsetting losses if the RD pool (from which many "diversity" picks are drawn) was, in consequence, relatively smaller.</p>
<p>This year, males constitute only 39% of applicants, and we will have to see how far Brown goes to achieve greater gender balance in the admitted class.</p>
<p>Two years ago, for the Class of 2008, 42% of the applicants were male, and 58% were female.</p>
<p>Brown achieved a more-nearly-equal 53-47% female split among matriculants by admitting 19% of the male applicants and only 14% or so of the female applicants.</p>
<p>Wow, only 39%? I certainly wouldn't mind going to a school that is roughly 60% female, but I can imagine the adcom doing something in an attempt to balance this.</p>
<p>And balance they should! If Byerly's information is any indication, hopefully Brown will do the same this year. And in that case, I really must thank all the females for applying.</p>
<p>I doubt fewer males have been applying, my guess is the total number of admits is growing but that growth is almost entirely among females. Hence if two years ago it admitted 19% of males and 14% of females to get 53-47, this year it will admit something like 19% of the same number of male applicants and 11% of a greater number of female applicants to get a similar balance</p>
<p>Ali G, that still reflects good news. After all, if nothing else the males avoid an ever tougher admissions season. Not bad, at least for me! :)</p>
<p>yea ali g, that sounds like the most realistic scenario</p>
<p>i'm surprised no one has brought this up (or maybe someone did and I missed it): who's to say that the excess of female applicants consists of qualified female applicants? The smaller male pool might contain enough strong applicants that would have gotten in anyway, and some of the extra females might be immediate rejections who are applying to Brown so that they can go to school with "Seth Cohen" and "Brian Griffin"</p>
<p>amen that i am a man i really want to get into brown.</p>
<p>"who's to say that the excess of female applicants consists of qualified female applicants?"</p>
<p>The exact same statement could be made of the male applicants.</p>
<p>yea but i feel totally comfortable saying that overall, the pool of females is more qualified. in general, girls are just more mature in high school and can get it together to receive good grades, etc. think about the top students in your highschool. with a few exceptions, i bet theyre mostly girls</p>
<p>i agree with you lewisloftus (except that there is no excess of male applicants) my real point is that you can't speculate that their will be some sort of bias towards males given that no one knows the quality of the applicants.</p>
<p>David218, arguably 2 of the 3 best high schools in the US are all guys, what do you say about that?</p>