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OK, substitute “more than 50%” if you don’t like the term “predominantly”. The point is that top schools with more than 50% men – even if it’s only by a small amount, like 51% or 53% – are increasingly rare. JHU is unusual in this respect (though there are other examples, such as Cornell or Princeton).
No, that’s not the kind of imbalance that we’re discussing in this thread. You’re listing F/M ratios for enrolled students. This thread is about F/M ratios among the applicant pool. Many schools now have significant imbalances in their applicant pools, so they discriminate against female applicants to get the enrolled ratio closer to 50/50.</p>
<p>Here’s an example. According to the Brown University CDS, Brown enrolled 725 men and 744 women last year. Sounds pretty balanced. But the catch is that Brown had 11,083 female applicants, and only 7,233 male applicants. The competition for a slot at Brown was clearly tougher if you were female.</p>