http://www.whyboysfail.com/2009/12/14/wpost-sets-a-high-bar-for-writing-the-college-admissions-bias-story/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:23:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.whyboysfail.com/2009/12/14/wpost-sets-a-high-bar-for-writing-the-college-admissions-bias-story/#comment-13277 Crusty old academic Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:47:50 +0000 http://www.whyboysfail.com/?p=1260#comment-13277 This writer repeats the myth that there has been discrimination against women in college admissions that disappeared only in recent decades. That has not been true in most public colleges and universities since at least the beginning of the twentieth century, and in many cases, earlier. It is true that until about the 1970's Ivy League schools admitted only men, but even they were balanced by the Seven Sisters, which were usually nearby (and in some cases formally affiliated, most famously Harvard and Radcliffe). To this day Barnard College admits only women, although it is part of Columbia University. There were certainly private institutions of varying size that admitted only men or only women and a very few that still do, but since the development of extensive state school systems, private schools have accounted for only a small fraction of the college student population. This writer repeats the myth that there has been discrimination against women in college admissions that disappeared only in recent decades. That has not been true in most public colleges and universities since at least the beginning of the twentieth century, and in many cases, earlier. It is true that until about the 1970’s Ivy League schools admitted only men, but even they were balanced by the Seven Sisters, which were usually nearby (and in some cases formally affiliated, most famously Harvard and Radcliffe). To this day Barnard College admits only women, although it is part of Columbia University. There were certainly private institutions of varying size that admitted only men or only women and a very few that still do, but since the development of extensive state school systems, private schools have accounted for only a small fraction of the college student population.

]]> http://www.whyboysfail.com/2009/12/14/wpost-sets-a-high-bar-for-writing-the-college-admissions-bias-story/#comment-13276 Anonymous Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:29:16 +0000 http://www.whyboysfail.com/?p=1260#comment-13276 This is the paragraph that jumped out at me: "... men, who are more likely to drop out of school and more apt to go into the military, manual-labor jobs or prison." I realize that the article was about affirmative action for college, but I wish he had expanded on this at least a little more. This is the paragraph that jumped out at me: “… men, who are more likely to drop out of school and more apt to go into the military, manual-labor jobs or prison.” I realize that the article was about affirmative action for college, but I wish he had expanded on this at least a little more.

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