<p>But I also wonder (particularly reading your post cangel) whether there is something going on at your school. In our high school the top two places were boys, number three or four in the class was a girl (headed for Caltech). The top 25 kids seemed fairly evenly split. Girls got a few more of the humanities prizes, boys sweeped Latin and had a slight majority of science prizes. For what it’s worth I think our elementary did some good things like teach chess in the schools which I think deemphasized some of those sex roles. I think a school where girls are achieving at much greater rates should be worried about what they are doing wrong.</p>
<p>That said, I went to a girl’s high school (not my idea!) and it was very good for me. I think it was much easier for us to be nerdy and intellectual and it spawned close friendships which I still value to this day. Oh and while many girls see kids after school - I knew no one well enough from my jr. high days and didn’t have a church or other coed EC to meet boys. I went on my first date summer after senior year. I didn’t seem to have it any easier or harder as a freshman than my female friends with more high school experience however.</p>