To all the girls I've rejected

That's actually the headline of the New York Times op-ed article I'm linking to ... But you thought it was something else, didn't you?

The Dean of Admissions at Kenyon College, Jennifer Delahunty Britz, writes about how colleges are rejecting more and more women. Women who are much better than the male students applying. Apparently colleges work very hard to keep the percentage of female students somewhere below 55% because if you get any high male students don't want to come (are they stupid?) and it actually makes female students less likely to select the campus as well.

Therefore the caliber of the accepted women goes up because, frankly, they rock. But that means stellar and incredible women are rejected while mediocre half-baked men are accepted. Here's how she ends her piece:

I admire the brilliant successes of our daughters. To parents and the students getting thin envelopes, I apologize for the demographic realities.

It's one of the most interesting things I've read in a long time.