<p>The Post has a related piece 12/14 on admission differences between males and females, with a civil rights investigation to begin for several DC-area schools.</p>
<p>"Civil rights investigators will soon begin reviewing admissions data from a sampling of colleges in the Washington region to determine whether, after decades of progress toward sexual equity, female students have become so plentiful in higher education that institutions have entered a new era of discrimination against them…</p>
<p>“Civil rights investigators will request a range of data from each of the chosen schools to determine the relative academic merits of male and female applicants who were admitted, wait-listed or rejected, as well as the kind and amount of aid offered to applicants. The investigation might lead to a public briefing with witness testimony, or it could end less dramatically with only a written report. If schools cooperate, the work could be finished in six months, Ostrowsky said.”</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/13/AR2009121302922.html?hpid=newswell&sid=ST2009121400363]washingtonpost.com[/url”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/13/AR2009121302922.html?hpid=newswell&sid=ST2009121400363]washingtonpost.com[/url</a>]</p>