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<p>And is THAT the point we are discussing? How hard is it to find statistics that show that there are more women graduating from high school, applying, attending, and graduating from colleges in the country. A class of 8th graders in South Carolina could come up with such numbers before opening their lunchbox. If that was the core of the discussion, it will have been over and done hundreds of posts ago. </p>
<p>The issue is still about your statement that LACs (and the top LACs) are struggling with a gender imbalanced enrollment and are forced to admit LESSER qualified male applicants to maintain a “reasonable” balance. A balance that you pegged at 60 woman to 40 men. </p>
<p>It’s really not that hard … do you have ANY evidence that the top LACs are struggling to find a sufficient number of well qualified men to fill their fresh(wo)men class? And then what is the basis you use to define the lesser qualifications that seem to afflict those poor men at the top LACs. </p>
<p>By the way, a simple “I don’t know and I just assume that would be the case” will be fine. I have given up all hopes for a reasonable answer from you on this subject several pages ago. And, fwiw, everything was fine until you had to push the envelope with the statement that some top schools had to admit lesser qualified males to maintain a gender balance. You could have alleged … pure discrimination and digged deeper into an issue that already pits families against each other on the basis of race. </p>
<p>Oh well. C’est la vie!</p>