Doing the math it looks like there were about 873 female applicants and 2271 male applicants. It's certainly possible that a higher percentage of the much smal

Doing the math it looks like there were about 873 female applicants and 2271 male applicants. It's certainly possible that a higher percentage of the much smaller female group were qualified than the larger male group. In this case, where the assumption is that high school females are less likely to want to pursue a math/sci/tech degree, I'd guess it's likely that the average female applicant to Harvey Mudd is more qualified than the average male, simply because she's already going against the grain by applying. But none of that has anything to do with the extremely positive aspect of making the compSci program more fun and accessible to all comers by ditching Java and C++ in the intro classes and focusing on solving real world problems. Bravo to that.