<p>Can’t we find some way to make this thread touch on Asians, drinking, and fraternities? Then it could hit all of the CC hot buttons.</p>
<p>I, too, am puzzled by some of the anger over male admissions. It seems obvious that it’s in W&M’s long-term interest to remain a co-educational college, and it also seems obvious that, with women applying at almost twice the rate as men, and sticking around much more once enrolled, W&M is running awfully close to a kind of tipping point at which its make applications would drop even further, and it would no longer be competitive for women who wanted to attend a college that had a meaningful number of men it in (which is to say, an awful lot of women). I can certainly understand the disappointment of a parent whose child was rejected by a college she liked, but it’s really hard to imagine W&M doing anything radically different from what it is doing. Over time, the application numbers and statistical profiles of the men and women ought to converge.</p>