***Official MIT RD Results/Discussion Class of 2021***

Burrito12
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 01:34:07 +0000

@cconfidentialkid I don’t think you can make that assumption. Based on public data, in 2015, the acceptance rate for females is 13% while it WAS 6% for males. http://time.com/money/4147738/colleges-women-higher-acceptance-rate/ . Although MIT tries to get an equal gender ratio, I feel that they are losing qualified male applicants to accept slightly academically/extracurricularly weaker females in certain scenarios, as supported by the evidence. I understand that MIT wants to make a balanced class, but I think it is unfair that females have a 116% better chance to get accepted than males. Not even self-selection from females would lessen the gap substantially.