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<p>You have not supplied enough information about these people to make a meaningful point. Were they ED? ED2? Full pay? Legacies? Scholarship? Were they going to need financial aid? There’s a lot more to sussing out Tufts Syndrome than just SAT scores. SAT scores only begin to tell the story.</p>
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<p>It’s not, but it could, in theory, be a contributing factor. These schools want to make their statistics look good while simultaneously adhering to the sexism inherent in American culture. Who better to pass over in the quest to get more international students (especially full-pay onces) and minority students than overqualified white females? They can be guilt-free about it, too, because surely these young women will be able to find an education somewhere else.</p>
<p>Incidentally, one of the Tufts Syndrome victims in recent years who showed up here to talk about it was an Asian female, not a white female. I think someone said she ended up in an Ivy, so Swarthmore was correct in assuming that she was going to have plenty of other options and would probably go elsewhere.</p>