“Boys are the subject of open discrimination in ... college admissions.”
I think that just the opposite is true. Colleges are desperate to bring into closer equality the numbers of males and females who enroll. There is an unsettling group pathology that emerges when the sex ratio in any “community” becomes too unbalanced. At most US colleges, the sex ratio now is approximately 40/60 (males to females).
No offense, but, really? For 40 years, colleges have diligently pushed white males out of higher education. You say the ratio is something like 40/60 men to women. How many of that diminishing set of males are even white?
If what you proffer is true, then in 5 years the ratio should be closer to 42/58. Since I see no change in admission selection from our communist bastions of higher learning, I will herein wager you a nickel that the ratio will be closer to 38/62 than 42/58, provided that the ratio of white men to victim class men remains unchanged.
As a passing thought, I've kept that nickel for quite a long time..
“Colleges are desperate to bring into closer equality the numbers of males and females who enroll.”
Simply untrue (and omitting the racial factor).
What you say sounds plausible until you find that admissions is geared towards or actually done department by department. The fields that I found discriminate heavily are math, chemistry, physics, engineering, computer science, medical school and I'll assume any other technical field. They're trying for a 50/50 ratio because it's an accepted (Marxist) idea is that theres no difference between men and women and disparity is the result of class privilege.
Of course that's nonsense, men overwhelmingly test better at math and science and always have. One professor admitted privately that most women let into his top program are struggling and instructors are slowing things down to help them catch up. American education has been fubared.