Leading Schools Announce Admission Numbers for Women

Several of the nation’s leading colleges and universities have just released data on the students they admitted for the Class of 2017. Many of these schools had a record number of applicants and a record low acceptance rate. Some of the leading schools offered a breakdown on the gender of the students admitted to their Fall 2013 incoming classes.

• At Princeton University, there was an almost even mix of men and women. Women were 49.8 percent of all admitted students.

• Harvard University received more applications from men than from women. Women make up 46.6 percent of all students admitted.

• At Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, women are 50 percent of students accepted for admission.

• Cornell University reports that women are 51.6 percent of accepted students.

• Williams College, the highly rated liberal arts institution in western Massachusetts, accepted 597 women and 560 men. Thus, women are 51.6 percent of the students accepted for admission.