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Hey! I tried searching the forums with Google using various search words but didn't come with anything helpful...

From my visit to the Foresight conference at UCBSO this past fall, I realized that females heavily outnumber males. Especially asian females. Something like 15 were male?

Does anyone know why this is (or can speculate)? Is it because less males apply...or is because the girls have stronger applications? Does this make it any easier for guys to get in, because they have so few guys? (I ask this because I have a couple guy friends whose #1 choice is UCBSO but they don't have the most stellar GPAs...hopefully they'll perform well on the OAT though)

I'm applying to UCBSO myself for Fall 2007 entrance. =) I'll also be applying to SCCO but I really only want to go to Berkeley...I looove the small class size!

 

[blazenmadison]

Hey! I tried searching the forums with Google using various search words but didn't come with anything helpful...

From my visit to the Foresight conference at UCBSO this past fall, I realized that females heavily outnumber males. Especially asian females. Something like 15 were male?

Does anyone know why this is (or can speculate)? Is it because less males apply...or is because the girls have stronger applications? Does this make it any easier for guys to get in, because they have so few guys? (I ask this because I have a couple guy friends whose #1 choice is UCBSO but they don't have the most stellar GPAs...hopefully they'll perform well on the OAT though)

I'm applying to UCBSO myself for Fall 2007 entrance. =) I'll also be applying to SCCO but I really only want to go to Berkeley...I looove the small class size!

Asians are an overrepresented minority especially at the UC schools.

Someone should study the effects of more females entering the health profession. It seems to me (just recently) that female professionals are more willing to be a stay-at-home mom and work part-time. this creates a gap in the healthcare services they used to provide.
my boss is a female optometrist who just recently had a baby. She is taking leave for almost a year to be with her family. She is not renewing her lease with Lenscrafters and another doctor will have to come take her place. I don't know how she will pay her loans. My dermatologist had a baby 5 months ago, and she could not see patients for 3. Now she is only doing part-time work. The probelm is I can't see her until August, and no other derms are taking new patients right now. Crazy.

 

[Elfego Baca]

From what I've heard, there are more female (and Asian) applicants to UCBSO than there are males, and that the females have tended to have stronger applications overall.

 

[al-majhul]

Have you all overlooked the fact that pretty much all the schools seem to have a high female to male ratio. Check out the stats on JASCO's website. I think at most schools it comes pretty close to 2:1. It is true that our class at UCBSO has a slightly higher ratio (there are about a dozen of us guys in the entering class of 60), but from what I remember the interview day was similar. I think it's just a byproduct of a higher pool of female applicants than male.

 

[J.opt]

Hey! I tried searching the forums with Google using various search words but didn't come with anything helpful...

From my visit to the Foresight conference at UCBSO this past fall, I realized that females heavily outnumber males. Especially asian females. Something like 15 were male?

Does anyone know why this is (or can speculate)? Is it because less males apply...or is because the girls have stronger applications? Does this make it any easier for guys to get in, because they have so few guys? (I ask this because I have a couple guy friends whose #1 choice is UCBSO but they don't have the most stellar GPAs...hopefully they'll perform well on the OAT though)

I'm applying to UCBSO myself for Fall 2007 entrance. =) I'll also be applying to SCCO but I really only want to go to Berkeley...I looove the small class size!

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/23/opinion/23britz.html?incamp=article_popular

 

[cpw]

My class at UHCO and most classes since have been 2:1 female to male. There are just more female applicants in general.

 

[cpw]

Someone should study the effects of more females entering the health profession. It seems to me (just recently) that female professionals are more willing to be a stay-at-home mom and work part-time. this creates a gap in the healthcare services they used to provide.
my boss is a female optometrist who just recently had a baby. She is taking leave for almost a year to be with her family. She is not renewing her lease with Lenscrafters and another doctor will have to come take her place. I don't know how she will pay her loans. My dermatologist had a baby 5 months ago, and she could not see patients for 3. Now she is only doing part-time work. The probelm is I can't see her until August, and no other derms are taking new patients right now. Crazy.

this won't really change until men can start popping out kids 😉