@ferrarepatrick73, I would argue that rejection numbers are the wrong metric to look at and acceptance rates are the right one. Consider the case of a school that gets twice as many female applicants as males (let’s say 2000 female and 1000 male applicants). Let’s say they’re okay with a 2-to-1 female to male ratio on their campus, and don’t bother to adjust acceptance rates down for women, admitting exactly 20% of both genders. They would then reject 1600 women and 800 men. Does the fact that twice as many females are rejected as males make it twice as hard to get in for the females? Of course not. both genders have exactly a 1 in 5 shot of getting admitted. That makes about as much sense as saying it’s “harder” for women to get into, say, Penn State than Middlebury, because Penn State rejects three times as many women.