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> 1. Give massive preferential treatment to women during university "Some schools are trying to attract male applicants by improving their sports programs; oth
by elicash 6mo ago
> 1. Give massive preferential treatment to women during university
"Some schools are trying to attract male applicants by improving their sports programs; others invest more heavily in buying boys’ email addresses or give incentives to boys that they do not offer to girls — such as free stickers or baseball caps — for filling out information on the school website. Marketing materials are sometimes designed to speak specifically to young men. Heath Einstein, dean of admission of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, recalls fondly a pamphlet known internally as the “bro-chure,” which featured shots of the football team, a rock climber and a male student shoving cake in his mouth. But the easiest way for many competitive schools to fix their gender ratios lies in the selection process, at which point admissions officers often informally privilege male applicants, a tendency that critics say amounts to affirmative action for men."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/magazine/men-college-enrollment.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/magazine/men-college-enro...
- bill_joy_fanboy 6mo agoNo one believes anything the NYT says.
- elicash 6mo agoIt's not the NYT making the claims, they are merely reporting on them. And I think it's weird to just dismiss all evidence that conflicts with your priors. But fine, how about the NY Post: https://nypost.com/2025/09/11/us-news/schools-may-be-using-affirmative-action-to-solve-the-boy-crisis/ https://nypost.com/2025/09/11/us-news/schools-may-be-using-a... Or how about this quote from a former admissions officer at Brandeis: "We might admit the male student and wait-list the female student because of wanting to get closer to this sort of gender parity in terms of percentages in the class." https://hechingerreport.org/an-unnoticed-result-of-the-decline-of-men-in-college-its-harder-for-women-to-get-in/ https://hechingerreport.org/an-unnoticed-result-of-the-decli...