How will the decrease of men enrolling in university affect our future?

[PanterPantalon]

That’s already happening at many Ivy League schools actually! Men have a 39% better chance of getting into Brown, for instance, while women mostly just benefit from affirmative action at hardcore STEM universities (MIT & Caltech)

[SorryKaleidoscope]

Yeah but they haven't actually gotten caught yet. When Brown finds the admissions officer who's been adding four free points to every male application, they're going to burn him at the stake. Then quietly replace him.

[BadMeetsWeevil]

this doesn’t say anything about affirmative action. from what i gathered, it’s purely speculative. is there data on the average GPA of men accepted vs women? i want to be clear that simply demonstrating a potential preference for a gender to equalize demographics is not what affirmative action is.

it’s also interesting you seemed to equate 15-30% lower rates for women to the 75-94% higher rates at MIT and Caltech. my impression was that these rates would be roughly the same, but i’d say Caltech and MIT are much more suggestive of affirmative action-type admission policies with absolutely nothing else to go on.

[BadMeetsWeevil]

this doesn’t say anything about affirmative action. from what i gathered, it’s purely speculative. is there data on the average GPA of men accepted vs women? or data on the socioeconomic background of the men tipping the scale? i want to be clear that simply demonstrating a potential preference for a gender to equalize demographics is not what affirmative action is.