does being low income help or hurt your chances?

Colleges & Universities College of William and Mary
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<p>does being a low income, in state, male help or hurt your chances? or neither?</p>

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<p>I would say it helps.</p>

<p>But I have no information that backs that up.</p>

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<p>Being male and in-state helps a lot. Also, William and Mary has a special program, Gateway, for kids whose families earn less than $40,000 a year. Whether that helps you get in I don’t know, but at least once you’re in, you’ll get financial support: <a href=“http://www.wm.edu/gateway[/url]”>www.wm.edu/gateway</a></p>

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<p>is the number of boys and girls applying to W&M so uneven that being male helps a lot? because it looks like the school is only 55% girls (according to princetonreview.com) so it seems relatively even… do they have to reject a large number of girls that apply and accept a large number of males that apply to maintain this ratio?</p>

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<p>Yes, far more girls apply to W&M.</p>

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<p>To put some numbers on it, WM accepts 40% of males and 26% of females, according to the most recent numbers in their Common Dataset. So yes, being male is a BIG plus.</p>

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<p>This is true, from what I’ve read. ^^^But I don’t know how a public college can do that. It’s discriminatory, unless the male applicant pool is so much stronger.</p>

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<p>It’s not discriminatory, and on that note, acceptance rates really don’t mean much at all</p>

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<p>If males are consistently getting in with lower GPAs and SAT scores, as appears to be happening, that would be discriminatory, especially considering that W&M is a public college with a mandate to serve the people of Virginia.</p>

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<p>Well first of all no, because it fails what is known in common law as the rational basis test, meaning that there is a reasonable explanation for it if there was discrimination in the first place, which there is not. End of story. </p>

<p>Second of all, you can neither effectively qual. or quantatively compare two applicants in a successful manner</p>

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<p>I don’t believe there is any evidence that shows the males who are admitted are weaker applicants than the females who are admitted.</p>

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<p>^^^ Do you have numbers that back up your assertion?</p>

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<p>I don’t know if you can find better numbers, but this is what I had previously read and was bassing my statement on: (slightly dated, from 2003)</p>

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