Amherst Applications Down 8.2%

[circuitrider]

<p>This is on thread:</p>

<p>I think we can stop the guess work - at least for the time being. Amherst’s admission rate has gone up this year - about three quarters of a percent over last year.
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<p>This is uber thread:
Boysintheband wrote:

Let me be blunt: for men it means quit getting drunk and start treating women with respect. For women it means quit thinking you have to sleep around to be cool.

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<p>I’m not sure what your connection is with the school, but your characterization that Amherst women have sex in order to “look cool” whereas Amherst men have sex because they get drunk, is odious and perhaps says more about the state of play between the sexes at Amherst than you intended.</p>

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This is off thread, but permit a final comment on this. If you mean by “predatory” that these are thought-out deliberations by sober men trying to take advantage of sober women, then we do disagree.

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<p>Mini can probably defend her position better than I can, but I don’t think she meant that Amherst men were jumping out from behind trees and dragging sober women, like cave men, behind bushes to be raped. Just to be clear about certain “incontrovertible” facts regarding basic human physiology: a woman <em>can</em> be raped even while completely passed out in a dormitory. A man, even when drunk, can still commit rape.</p>