A Thumb on the Scales
June 26, 2007 – 6:46 amThis article from US News and World Report says that men can get into many American colleges with lower grades than are required for women:
The reason for these lower admissions rates for female students is simple, if bitterly ironic: From the early grades on up, girls tend to be better students. By the time college admissions come into the picture, many watchers of the “boy gap” agree, it’s too late for the lads to catch up on their own.
*sigh*
2 Responses to “A Thumb on the Scales”
I think there is more to this than your quote implies. That lower admissions rate swings both ways, and depends on the subject of study. Also from the same article:
In fact, women hoping to study engineering will find themselves at an advantage at schools like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which over the past decade has admitted women at a rate that is 17 percentage points higher than for men.
By Christopher on Jun 26, 2007
While this may be true for some colleges, looks like there are more women with degrees in the US than men.
At least, this article http://travel.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/us/06marry.html?pagewanted=1 suggests that drastically more American non-degreed men in their 40-es are single, partially, as the author argues, due to diminishing pool of non-degreed women in the same age bracket. And degreed women do not see the suckers as a good match
The good news, the marital balance for degreed women has been improving.
By SZ on Jun 26, 2007