Gender Can Give You a College Admissions Advantage
The perfect example is at MIT.
The Washington Post reports.
At some colleges, your gender — man or woman — might give you an admissions edge
Far more men than women apply to enter the Massachusetts Institute of Technology every year. The imbalance produces a perennial gender gap: MIT’s admission rate for women is significantly higher.
The most recent federal data show 13 percent of female applicants were offered entry to the elite school in Cambridge for fall 2014, compared to 6 percent of male applicants.
This gap has narrowed in recent times — it stood at 12 percentage points in 2007 — but there is no reason to believe it will be erased this year when MIT releases admission decisions Monday for its entering class of 2020.
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At some colleges, your gender — man or woman — might give you an admissions edge (The Washington Post)
At some colleges, your gender — man or woman — might give you an admissions edge (The Washington Post)
