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Colleges lower the bar to admit men.(faculty applications)(Brief Article)
Now that women are the clear majority on most campuses, some schools are admitting less qualified men to obtain a more equalized gender ratio.
The "tipping point" for male preference kicks in when women reach 53 to 62% of the undergraduate applicant pool, according to a recent study of admissions data from 13 liberal arts colleges in the United States.
Results of the study, by economists Sandy Baum at Skidmore College NY and Eban Goodstein at Lewis and Clark College OR, will be published soon in the journal Economics of Education Review.
"We find a clear evidence for a preference for men in historically female colleges," where being a male applicant raises the probability of being accepted between 6.5 and ...
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