March 28, 2007 - 12:55am
By Bianca Mazzarella
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During the early 1990s, the number of women enrolled in college in the U.S. surpassed the enrollment rate for men. Since then, the college gender gap has widened, and currently, 57 percent of college students in the U.S. states are women. While the gender gap continues to grow, Cornell undermines the national trend with a nearly equal male to female ratio that has remained steady since 2001.