"scarce" resources, college and sexism

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And then there's this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/23/opinion/23britz.html

It's the sort of thing that makes it hard for me to imagine any world in which women, at least as a group, don't always lose.

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There is a huge distinction between the four schools you mentioned. I just wish that they wouldn't try to describe the schools as if they existed on a hierarchy when they all have very different missions, history, character, and students.

There's some numerical data you can use to describe the school in a ranked fashion, what scores are required to get in, what percentage of applicants it admits, what their demographics are, how many graduates go on to get a PhD, what their incomes are like, etc. The problem is that people don't know how to read a chart so they're just going to look at who's number 13 and who's number 22 out of 50. Oh, that must mean Oberlin's better than Kenyon but not as good as Brown.

Except people from Oberlin have a notoriously hard time getting along with the general population (I'm one of them... its true) while the CIA recruits heavily from Brown. I think that's a little more important than who rejects more kids.

So I understand why admissions officers are going to try to sell each college on its own merits, but these are things you can't place on a graph.