<p>SarahBellum, your post is nonsensical. </p>
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<li><p>No one is arguing that VMI should change its program to attract more women. A college can have whatever program it wants so long as that program, if it leads to more applications from one gender than the other, doesn’t discrminate against the gender submitting more applications. As I’ve demonstrated earlier, the available admissions data for VMI suggests that it’s not holding a male’s gender against him even though nearly 10 times more men apply than women.</p></li>
<li><p>There’s no question that William and Mary’s heavily female applicant pool reflects self-selection, but that’s not the issue. The issue is what’s the college doing with the pool that it gets. And, again, the answer is clear: by the college’s own admission, it’s taking gender into account.</p></li>
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<p>As for soccerguy, your comments are inconsistent with William and Mary’s own statements. The college is on record as wanting to to be gender balanced and in wanting to attract more male applicants, and the college is on record about not wanting to get involved in any debate on this issue while the Civil Rights Commission is still investigating. You seem to be taking this very personally, but you need not do that; I’m sure you were fully qualified for admission to William and Mary.</p>