Ditto for teenage girls ,
who are outpacing boys in our secondary schools. As several recent studies have confirmed, high school girls study more — and, not surprisingly, get better grades — than high school boys do.
So it’s also harder for them to get into elite colleges, which want to maintain a gender balance as well as a racial one. In 2007, U.S. News and World Report found that the college admission rate for girls
was 13 percent lower than that of boys. And in 2014,
The Post reported that 64 elite schools — including Brown, Amherst and Wesleyan — made it harder for girls than for boys to get in.