QUESTION: what happens when a college wants a balanced class but has a much smaller female applicant pool to draw on?
ANSWER: higher admission rates for females!
Like our previous post, we looked at several popular coed institutions and searched for places where there was a 20% or greater admission rate advantage, this time for women. The result: a list of 51 schools for qualified applicants to consider.
The list is dominated by institutions strong in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), but you'll also find some unexpected names like Grinnell College and Kenyon College.
To help you categorize schools into likelies, targets and reaches, we've included admission rates, mid-50th percentile SAT and ACT scores. We've also provided links to each school's website to help you explore fit.
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As we entered 2020, roughly one-third of the schools in our coverage universe offered some form of test-optional admissions. That
figure cleared 70 percent in June and is now hovering at 90 percent with the holdouts largely in the South, particularly the public universities in Flordia and Georgia.
The Common App for 2015-16 was posted earlier today, and we've just wrapped up our analysis on the real number of short answer/essay prompts required for each school. If you've been through this process before, you know that just because a school lacks a writing supplement doesn't mean there are no additional essays to complete. Many schools in fact simply embed these prompts in the main application itself.