Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Do Colleges Favor Male Applicants?
NPR: "As a group, women have been outperforming men in college for years. Now the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights wants to know if colleges have begun admitting less qualified men instead of more qualified women because those colleges fear their campuses might become overwhelmingly female."
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Wow I didn't know that there was much a large majority of woman in colleges. Most people would view this as a good thing, but apparently it can negative effects as well. There has always been a problem with college admissions, and there always will be, based on what gender and race. People are always complaining that they didn't get into college because they were discriminated against. I never understood why colleges don't just ask for GPA and test scores at the beginning of the process. I understand that they want to gather data about the population that goes to their school, but why not get that info after they are excepted? That way it would block all potential arguments about discrimination.
Who knew that someone would choose males over the best canadite for college acceptance? And it is interesting that this whole issue started after a mother complained and made it into the NY times.
There definately is some unfair things happening in college admissions. Mainly with race and acceptance. But there seems to be some gender inequality to in college admissions acceptances. I agree that maybe the investigation and study is looking at the wrong people, but I can say there is 7 male students in the freshmen DP class and 15 female. Defiantly no inequality there.
I can see both sides of this story. It seems like around the age when you begin to apply for colleges that there are a lot more motivated girls than there are guys. However, I can also see the negative effects of being labeled as having a majority of your students being female. This will definitely lead to differences in the applicant pool which may not necessarily be what theese colleges are looking for at the moment.
From what I've heard about CMU's admissions, I don't think we have a problem of admissions accepting less-qualified male applicants in favor of more qualified female applicants. Although (for the university as a whole) the gender ratio is about 60:40 male:female, the university wants to improve the gender balance, which is not something that would happen by accepting more less-qualified males.
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