TABLE V.

Codes Counted in SLORs by Applicant Gender Listed by Frequency

Code	Applicant		p
	Female Letter Count (n = 246)	Male Letter Count (n = 404)
Ability	149	221	0.14
Academic background	86	129	0.43
Achievement	96	126	0.04
Agency	81	107	0.08
Athletics	71	60	<0.001
Authority established	19	30	0.89
Awards	64	79	0.05
Career choice	3	6	0.78
Clinical skills	129	185	0.10
Communal	87	126	0.27
Community service	39	67	0.81
Doubt raiser	12	19	0.92
Family	1	1	0.72
Fit	28	30	0.09
Fund of knowledge	91	149	0.98
Future promise	166	261	0.45
Grindstone	153	232	0.23
Hardship	10	7	0.07
Initiative	70	92	0.10
Judgment	3	4	0.78
Leadership	70	86	0.04
Legacy	4	10	0.47
Personality traits	107	151	0.12
Physical description	2	5	0.61
Positive but general	145	219	0.24
Presentations	81	105	0.06
Receptive to feedback	21	20	0.07
Recruitment/ranked highly	122	178	0.17
Research	150	255	0.58
Scholarship	53	106	0.18
Standout adjectives/superlatives	135	199	0.16
Strong support	114	185	0.90
Teaching/mentoring	33	44	0.33
Teamwork	76	109	0.28
Technical skills	77	89	0.009
Top student	73	105	0.31
Work habits/ethic	94	161	0.68