Who's the fairer sex now?

So it's not enough anymore to be the most highly qualifed candidate to get into college. This, of course, we've known for some time. It helps to be a legacy -- had a relative who's gone to the school. It helps to be an athlete. Or a concert cellist. Or a super-genius. But once again, it also helps to be male.

This is because right now, women make up the majority of students on campuses, and the majority of candidates applying to colleges, according to an apologetic New York Times Op-Ed today.

Funny, the way I remember it, when men were the majority, there wasn't any apologizing for that. Women, Jews, blacks, all had to fight like mad to get in, and were made to feel like they were taking a white male's place when they did. Now the scales are reversed, the tables turned, and women are being turned away, who should be accepted in droves.

My solution: apply to some of the best schools in the country: apply to women's colleges. My alma mater, Smith College, is still all women, and has been since it opened its doors in 1875. It is committed to turning out women engineers, women who become doctors and lawyers and the next women leaders. There's no issue of not accepting someone because she's a woman: in fact, that's the whole point. Until the day that some admissions committee gives in to the reality of the numbers, make them rue the day they turned you down.