Odds of getting into MIT differ based on gender

sterinaldi
Thu, 11 Apr 2019 10:40:59 +0000

I went to a STEM school in the late eighties and there were not too many girls in our class that it was depressing! I suspect the same was true in MIT at the time. I can understand that it is an institutional priority that the entering classes that get admitted to MIT are more balanced based on gender. Since MIT attracts many qualified students of both genders and since there appears to be less girls applying (albeit very qualified), then it is quite obvious that statistically its more favorable for qualified girls than qualified guys to be admitted. Without a doubt there are so many other factors at play when evaluating students for admittance and it is not just about “numerators and denominators” but the numbers do support that argument and numbers DO very much matter.