Comments on: Gender in College Admissions: Why Women are Often Held to a Higher Standard than Men http://www.samjackson.org/college/2007/06/28/gender-in-college-admissions-why-women-are-often-held-to-a-higher-standard/ all the exciting parts, none of the heavy debt burden Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:46:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Sam Jackson http://www.samjackson.org/college/2007/06/28/gender-in-college-admissions-why-women-are-often-held-to-a-higher-standard/comment-page-1/#comment-29307 Sam Jackson Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:31:56 +0000 http://www.samjackson.org/college/2007/06/28/gender-in-college-admissions-why-women-are-often-held-to-a-higher-standard/#comment-29307 Sounds great! Send me a link (if there's an online version?) or fulltext if you don't mind? I'd be very interested to read it. Senioritis should only recently have set in, no? Work ethics are good. Even if you ditch yours, you'll be called on to pick it up again sometime in the future... last semester I cruised a little bit with class 3 days a week and although I got an A in my really tough seminar which had high standards, in my boring-er lectures I didn't do as well. This term is much more rigorous and time consuming and I'm painfully busy easing my way into it. I'm working more than a lot of other people seem to be, doesn't seem like the norm, and I'm taking a lot of higher level courses that I are really demanding but really rewarding. But I'm stuck in an endless work treadmill, it practically seems. Or maybe some Xeno's homework paradox. Oh well. I cut down on some of my senioritis troubles by spending my spring trimester in D.C. interning (which was awesome!!!!!) so I didn't have all that much time to go in the winter after college admissions stuff (and I got in EA, so that was off my back). Hang in there on that front. Sounds great! Send me a link (if there’s an online version?) or fulltext if you don’t mind? I’d be very interested to read it. Senioritis should only recently have set in, no? Work ethics are good. Even if you ditch yours, you’ll be called on to pick it up again sometime in the future… last semester I cruised a little bit with class 3 days a week and although I got an A in my really tough seminar which had high standards, in my boring-er lectures I didn’t do as well. This term is much more rigorous and time consuming and I’m painfully busy easing my way into it. I’m working more than a lot of other people seem to be, doesn’t seem like the norm, and I’m taking a lot of higher level courses that I are really demanding but really rewarding. But I’m stuck in an endless work treadmill, it practically seems. Or maybe some Xeno’s homework paradox. Oh well.

I cut down on some of my senioritis troubles by spending my spring trimester in D.C. interning (which was awesome!!!!!) so I didn’t have all that much time to go in the winter after college admissions stuff (and I got in EA, so that was off my back). Hang in there on that front.

]]> By: Charline http://www.samjackson.org/college/2007/06/28/gender-in-college-admissions-why-women-are-often-held-to-a-higher-standard/comment-page-1/#comment-29306 Charline Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:13:47 +0000 http://www.samjackson.org/college/2007/06/28/gender-in-college-admissions-why-women-are-often-held-to-a-higher-standard/#comment-29306 I'm wrapping up writing an article for the school paper about gender bias in college admissions and just remembered you mentioning this! And to think I spent all that time poring over half-assed feminist blogs. I really just want to go to sleep! Senior year has made me unused to the whole concept of a work ethic that I had going for the past fourteen or so years. Or it could be that I stayed up until three last night (this morning?) watching Broken Flowers. Oh well... Bill Murray is infinitely more interesting than sleep anyway. How have you been, Sam? I’m wrapping up writing an article for the school paper about gender bias in college admissions and just remembered you mentioning this! And to think I spent all that time poring over half-assed feminist blogs.
I really just want to go to sleep! Senior year has made me unused to the whole concept of a work ethic that I had going for the past fourteen or so years. Or it could be that I stayed up until three last night (this morning?) watching Broken Flowers. Oh well… Bill Murray is infinitely more interesting than sleep anyway.

How have you been, Sam?

]]> By: Sam Jackson http://www.samjackson.org/college/2007/06/28/gender-in-college-admissions-why-women-are-often-held-to-a-higher-standard/comment-page-1/#comment-9440 Sam Jackson Sat, 14 Jul 2007 05:46:09 +0000 http://www.samjackson.org/college/2007/06/28/gender-in-college-admissions-why-women-are-often-held-to-a-higher-standard/#comment-9440 Interestingly, while I was looking at some old archive.org versions of the site, I came across this article I wrote last august talking about how women outperform men while AT college, too: http://www.samjackson.org/college/2006/08/09/women-in-college-outperform-men-forget-to-network/ Interestingly, while I was looking at some old archive.org versions of the site, I came across this article I wrote last august talking about how women outperform men while AT college, too: http://www.samjackson.org/college/2006/08/09/women-in-college-outperform-men-forget-to-network/

]]> By: Sam Jackson http://www.samjackson.org/college/2007/06/28/gender-in-college-admissions-why-women-are-often-held-to-a-higher-standard/comment-page-1/#comment-8719 Sam Jackson Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:29:15 +0000 http://www.samjackson.org/college/2007/06/28/gender-in-college-admissions-why-women-are-often-held-to-a-higher-standard/#comment-8719 I don't know how much of a difference it makes and where, you would want to ask your counselor on that account. US News would have us know that at some smaller colleges it certainly does. I know some people who were too paranoid to put down bio / life sciences as their prospective major for fear of being shuffled into a more competitive 'premed consideration pool,' though I don't know if that was unfounded. I did make it a bit too long, sorry about that. Takes longer to make it shorter, right? I don’t know how much of a difference it makes and where, you would want to ask your counselor on that account. US News would have us know that at some smaller colleges it certainly does. I know some people who were too paranoid to put down bio / life sciences as their prospective major for fear of being shuffled into a more competitive ‘premed consideration pool,’ though I don’t know if that was unfounded.

I did make it a bit too long, sorry about that. Takes longer to make it shorter, right?

]]> By: Libbie http://www.samjackson.org/college/2007/06/28/gender-in-college-admissions-why-women-are-often-held-to-a-higher-standard/comment-page-1/#comment-8688 Libbie Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:17:36 +0000 http://www.samjackson.org/college/2007/06/28/gender-in-college-admissions-why-women-are-often-held-to-a-higher-standard/#comment-8688 Does what you list as your expected field of study actually make a difference? This one would probably take me 1.5 hours, depending on whether or not your structure follows that of the article--which I will now go read. Does what you list as your expected field of study actually make a difference?

This one would probably take me 1.5 hours, depending on whether or not your structure follows that of the article–which I will now go read.

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