Comments on: Feds to Explore Gender Bias in College Admission http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2009/12/14/feds-to-explore-gender-bias-in-college-admission/ News from Independent Educational Consultants Association Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:45:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nancy Griesemer, College Explorations http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2009/12/14/feds-to-explore-gender-bias-in-college-admission/#comment-531 Nancy Griesemer, College Explorations Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:52:01 +0000 http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/?p=1366#comment-531 Hi Mark! After reading the initial reports of this investigation, I did my own research on about 30 DC area colleges and universities using published data. My findings showed that the VAST majority of schools did NOT discriminate against girls in admissions. In fact, you could make the case that a few discriminated against boys! There were a couple of exceptions. For example, the College of William and Mary accepted 43% of their male applicants, but only 29% of their female applicants. The other issue I discovered was that several universities appeared to have abruptly removed their statistics from their websites (Georgetown, University of Maryland etc.), which appeared curious. Anyway, thanks for keeping up your wonderful blog. I like the diversity of topics and information you provide. Nancy Hi Mark!

After reading the initial reports of this investigation, I did my own research on about 30 DC area colleges and universities using published data. My findings showed that the VAST majority of schools did NOT discriminate against girls in admissions. In fact, you could make the case that a few discriminated against boys!

There were a couple of exceptions. For example, the College of William and Mary accepted 43% of their male applicants, but only 29% of their female applicants. The other issue I discovered was that several universities appeared to have abruptly removed their statistics from their websites (Georgetown, University of Maryland etc.), which appeared curious.

Anyway, thanks for keeping up your wonderful blog. I like the diversity of topics and information you provide.

Nancy

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