Marissa Mayer at 2011 Harvey Mudd Commencement

Very cool! A perfect choice for this year, I think -- I'm delighted to see that this year's freshman class was 52% female, very much like the world itself!

HMC has come far from the early 90's when I was there -- it was still a male-dominated institution and certainly not the better for it.

Of course, it also cost literally half as much even after inflation adjustment, but that's another story...

I agree that is it good to see that the ratio is balancing but I worry about the cost of this. The applicant breakdown is not 52% female, so should the admitted students and accepted students be this high? I worry that since not many girls apply to a school like Harvey Mudd, they are having to lower the standards of acceptance in order to achieve this high female ratio.