<p>This is anecdotal, but in one of my son’s graduating classes, 2 girls were admitted to MIT and 2 boys (who were just as qualified, if not more so) were not. We had noticed this tendancy in the previous graduating class as well.</p>
<p>It might have been a temporary blip when predominantly male engineering colleges were really pushing to admit more women, but I would say even today these schools favor the female candidate. Female and URM is even better. ;)</p>
<p>The schools that state they don’t consider gender in admissions–how do they not know the applicant’s gender? Do they consider files without the name attached?</p>