Originally Posted by ljoy
Originally Posted by intparent
If colleges went by strictly "merit based" admissions today, boys would lose out to girls by a large margin in terms of the 'merit' measurements of GPA and test scores.


Not in all cases. Caltech and MIT are held up in this article as islands of merit-based admissions, and I have certainly never heard of them being female-dominated. In fact, Caltech definitely aims for a better gender balance in admissions to the extent they can do so without dooming underqualified freshmen women to failure.

Those are STEM schools.

HYP, etc. aren't STEM schools.