“Pomona – wow. Males 50% more likely to get in than females is a big deal.”
@rayric first of all I agree with you that the difference between m/f acceptances is not huge at Midd, but the same is pretty much true at all of the above (except maybe Vassar). For Pomona, for example, the latest CDS shows they admitted 9.1% females and 12.1% males with an overall admit rate of 10.3%. Applying that to the actual numbers, if the admit rate was exactly the same for both genders, I’m figuring about 58 more females would have been admitted. So yeah, I guess it’s a big deal if you were one of those 58 (of which about 28 would have enrolled), but in the bigger scheme of things, maybe not so much… (BTW, I would argue that since selectivity can so easily be manipulated, it is highly overrated as a measure of prestige - or a lot of other things, for that matter). Oh, and back to the OP: Midd is a great school.