When you reflect upon applying for colleges, you might think of stressors such as student loans or waiting to see if that acceptance letter has arrived in the mail, and future plans to be discussed after that sequence. Of course not every applicant gets admitted in to that specific college, but have you ever heard of getting denied acceptance because of your gender?
The college of William and Mary located in Williamsburg; Virginia is the second-oldest institution of strategically higher education in the USA, and along with this fact, one of the original eight Public Ivies. William and Mary was founded by a Royal Charter issued by King William along side Queen Mary the second, ruling England at the time, and was established in 1693. The college currently holds degrees available in law, liberal arts programs, as well as history departments and government projects.
This exciting college of William and Mary is now making it much more difficult for women to study at this establishment. This is all due to the popularity of the college with the society of females.
Apparently women are applying at a speedier rate for William and Mary then there is male counterparts. This was all according to the United States News and World Report from over fourteen thousand pieces of data inquiries from a number of universities and colleges all over the country. The dean of admissions Henry Broaddus commented on the dilemma and said, “It is certainly accurate to say that scores of more women are denied admission than males.” He continued saying, “This is attributed sourly in large part to the simple fact that more women are applying.”
In the previous years at least three thousand more women applied then men, but when the freshman class popped up in August, the gender did not reflect much disparity due to less admitted in the first place. In contrast to this fact, the class of 2010 was interestingly enough fifty-two percent female. But yet the freshman classes boasted nearly double the acceptance rate of ladies.
Henry Broaddus said, “William and Mary greatly values gender balance within its student community in the same way it rivals a broad variety of experiences and backgrounds that contribute to the education of all undergraduates.” There is an assurance statement that says discrimination is not the issue presented on the topic by stating, “The contrasts in admittance rates for men and women says far more about the composition of our pool than it does in compliance with the quality of enrolling students, or how efficient the office of admissions make decisions.
Fifty-four percent to forty-six percent is the undergraduate population at William and Mary in favor of women. In fact, women have skewed as highly as sixty percent according to data released from William and Mary in the past ten years. The process does not give an advantage to males, no matter the circumstances presented. In my opinion, equal gender rights should prevail in every single college and universities, no matter the size.
At a briefing held days before, Broaddus had told reporters that, “At no point in our admission process do we hold men, or any other subset of the applicant wading pool, to a different set of admission standards. The only demographic criterion in which the college is beholden is the out of state versus in state ratio of sixty-five to thirty-five by ruling of the state legislature.
For some women, this growing controversy will not dampen the spirits of female applicants, although many may become discouraged if their hearts are set on attending the wonderful and colorful historical college of William and Mary. A select few believe the reasoning pulling its wait behind this development is logically because most of the people who were qualified for the position have been males. The women have fired back, declaring this knowledge will be burned and a new structure will be carved from its ashes.
I am currently thinking about applying to William and Mary for some much needed classes to broaden my horizon as I grow older. I hope I may attain the smarts essential to making the teachers happy that I signed up and become the best I can be. I personally believe the women have a right to say what they said and I'd back them up all the way however far they went, for a great cause I believed in.
