<p>Do girls have a better chance of getting into Pratt than they do at Trinity?</p>
<p>I don’t think the adcoms discriminate based on sex in either direction. In fact, I don’t think gender is much of a consideration for admission. Therefore, even if statistically Pratt admits have a higher percentage of girls, being a girl doesn’t confer an advantage on the applicant unless the higher percentage is a result of lower standards for girls, which I don’t think it is.</p>
<p>Acceptance rate won’t tell you anything about chances.
One needs to look at the average SAT scores of the girls accepted and the guys accepted (and the average SAT scores of those who weren’t accepted) first before coming to ANY conclusions.</p>
<p>For instance, if the average SAT score of males accepted into Pratt is 1500 and the average SAT score of females is only 1420, that suggests gender discrimination.</p>
<p>The variation in average SAT scores could also be due to random chance. To consider the validity of a claim of gender based discrimination, one must conduct a valid hypothesis-based statistical test to prove that the null hypothesis (gender-blind admissions) must be rejected in favor of the alternate hypothesis. To simply suggest that a difference of 80 points in average scores is a result of gender discrimination is rather unscientific. </p>
<p>Btw, where is the data for the scores categorized by gender? I was unable to find anything on the admissions website.</p>