<p>As someone who applied to MIT because she thought she’d get an admissions advantage, I’m now pretty well convinced that females don’t really have an easier time.
Deferred EA and then rejected.
I mean, I got into Stanford, so I’d like to think I wasn’t totally unqualified - and yet, even with the supposedly huge admissions advantage, I still didn’t make the cut.
Keep in mind, too, that the Stanford RD accept rate is 5.something, and the MIT EA rate was 11ish. That’s twice the rate of the school I actually got accepted to. </p>
<p>(Sorry for the tangent… Just saying!)</p>