How would you respond to this statement about college admissions

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Of the schools mentioned, we visited Dickinson, Gettysburg, Catholic, Loyola, Washington College, and the not mentioned Mary Washington. All of these schools did say straight out that the odds are better for a male due to the imbalance in applicants. </p>

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<p>There is no problem about having a college with a lopsided gender ratio unless it threatens applicantions as a whole.

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<p>I agree with both statements. I do not see any problem in having a gender balance that is not equal. Fwiw, this happens in many majors, and especially in graduate school. Since selective and highly selective schools ate hardly following the racial distribution of the land, why would there be an expectation that the schools would have perfect balances along gender lines? </p>

<p>Better odds are not necessarily equal to better odds … for less qualified applicants. For instance, a smaller group of applicants might comprise a greater number of well qualified applicants, while the larger group might have a much higher percentage of applicants that have sub-par conditions. The fact that a school would reject more of the larger group does not necessarily mean that it DOES favor one group over the other, and this despite the statistically different results. </p>

<p>Belgium could send the exact same number of athletes to the next Olympics as the United States and despite having equal odds of winning medals end up with a much poorer result.</p>