Girl Glut in Colleges Leads to Discrimination in Admissions?

Increasing social freedoms are not the only reason the number of female applicants has increased. Due to the echo effect of the baby boom and the availability of the Internet to research universities further from home, the college admission process has become hyper-competitive over the past couple of decades for both male and female applicants. However, formerly male-dominated universities like Harvard now have more female undergraduates than male and are attempting to compensate.

According to a New York Times article by Jennifer Delahunty Britz, a college admissions officer, even Kenyon College in Ohio, which was founded as a men’s college in 1969, now has a 55 percent female applicant pool.

Britz used the article to apologize to girls who applied to college and were rejected due to the greater number of prospective female students. She went on to state that while a female applicant who has incredible extra-curricular activities, leadership, and community service experience but average test scores and grade point average was debated over extensively in the admissions process, a male applicant with similar qualifications would be accepted almost immediately.

Some people argue that boys are less likely to do well in school and go to college when they are forced to endure feminist propaganda (in the form of books by or about women that focus on sexual discrimination) and tests that give women the advantage by emphasizing writing and verbal skills. Even if this were true, depriving women of a college education does not balance the scale. Withholding some women from college will not make up for the fact that men do not have as strong verbal skills as women.

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