We all know about gender stereotypes, right?
There is no reason to assume that the women applying are no less qualified than the men. Maybe they are more qualified. Maybe more unqualified men apply to CalTech than women, and in contrast maybe the women who do apply are cream of the cream of the crop.
Girls perform better in high school overall these days, after all.
The raw number of women accepted is still lower than the raw number of men, fwiw, and from the CDS it looks like almost everyone has almost perfect stats.
The assumption that the acceptance rates are due to bias for women is… biased.
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The articles you are posting only strengthen the argument that MIT and Caltech are not the meritocracies they proclaim to be,
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Which has nothing to do with UChicago. Move on and be aware that future OT posts will be deleted without comment.
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The University of Chicago Board has changed considerably over the years. When I was student there in the late 1970’s 80% were nonalumni on any kind most of whom were prominent Chicago business leaders and philanthropists. Now most are alumni albeit many are graduate alumni. The Chicago Board does not look appreciably different than its peers with the exception of HYPS which has almost exclusively alumni including graduate only alumni on its governing board