Which of course is true in absolute terms - but then it will also be true that (per example) large universities tend to get “more” applications because they can accommodate many times the number students. So absolute numbers may not be a good measure?
I also wonder to what degree the absence of applications from one gender, might be made up by people expressly seeking out the “feature” of single-gender college?
So maybe expressing the number of applications vs. available spots (= acceptance rate) might be more telling. Obviously, there are the many brand-name selective women’s colleges – but now I start to wonder (strictly as an academic curiosity) how the totality of women’s colleges compare against the totality of co-ed schools.
Or maybe one need categorize by size, and compare women’s colleges against co-ed colleges of twice their size (to compensate for the “other gender” absence)?