<p>The article says nothing about the featured student’s SAT score, to say the least, so the readers are in no position to judge whether she should have gotten in, or would have gotten in but lost her place to someone from out of state. Were the featured student in the article a boy rather than a girl, however, there’s no question that her odds of admissions would be dramatically better. The available data suggests that the real issue with William and Mary admissions isn’t that it favors out of state applicants, it’s that it favors boys.</p>