Many colleges are rejecting women at rates drastically higher than those for men
Monthly Archives: June 2007
Day to Day – Gender Gap in College Admissions
Day to Day, June 19, 2007 ยท More women apply to college than men so colleges with selective admissions hope to maintain gender balance by admitting fewer women that men. While just a few decades ago women were not even allowed to enter the nation’s most prestigious universities, now collective success of women nationwide...
Day to Day transcript
MADEINE BRAND, host: This is DAY TO DAY. I’m Madeleine Brand. ANTHONY BROOKS, host: And I’m Anthony Brooks. As if figuring out how to get into the college of your choice wasn’t difficult enough, now in addition to getting good grades and amassing all those extra-curricular activities, it turns out that you might be...
The Final Verdict
Student Vincent Bugliosi was standing in a hallway of the UCLA Law School on Nov. 22, 1963, when he heard that President John F. Kennedy had been shot. Himself the president of his class, Bugliosi took it upon himself to announce the news to each of the classrooms. Today, as one of the country’s...