The score’s in and it’s a win for us. College women are becoming more and more ambitious and successful: they’re holding the most spots at top schools, participating in more college extracurriculars and are quickly outpacing their male counterparts. Eat our dust, ex-Harvard pres Larry Summers (who claimed that women don’t have the same math and science abilities as men)! Looks like the numbers are on our side after all…

Making the Grade.
Over the past three decades, women have gone from being a minority—and even forbidden on many college campuses—to the majority. Says Dr. Catherine Hill, the director of research at the American Association of University Women: “Women now represent over half of all [college] students (56 percent), up from 42 percent in 1970.” We’re now the majority at some of the most prestigious schools, like Columbia University, Northwestern University and Amherst College (among many others) and graduate with the most honors degrees.

Motivated Grrls.
Tracie Palmer, a junior majoring in Women’s Studies at Harvard University, exemplifies college women’s prowess: Palmer is a campus leader, participating in progressive and political organizations. And she’s noticed that many of her well-rounded peers are female. “In academics and extracurriculars… women push themselves to succeed in every area. I feel like women may be less apt to take their successes for granted.”