<p>To play a little bit of devil’s advocate here, women self-select a lot more in terms of applying to reaches. There are studies that have shown that women are much less likely to apply to a college that they don’t think they have a chance of being admitted to.</p>
<p>We actually see this in hiring here at the firm I work for. A ridiculously high percentage of the women who submit their resumes had 4.0s in college and grad school, much more so than the men. Women who think they don’t have a shot at being hired here usually don’t send in their resumes.</p>