This article over on the New York Times OP-ED page was really interesting. It basically outlines the side affects of encouraging so many women to go to college. In a nutshell, so many more women apply for college than men that the standards for women are higher. The end result is that women with outstanding GPA’s are turned down, and men with the same (or lower) scores are admitted easily.
We have told today’s young women that the world is their oyster; the problem is, so many of them believed us that the standards for admission to today’s most selective colleges are stiffer for women than men. How’s that for an unintended consequence of the women’s liberation movement?
It turns my ideas about the admissions process upside-down…