<p>does it really matter in certain schools (obviously not counting all male/female schools)? I've read that some schools admit more males than females and vice versa.</p>
<p>yeah if the sex ratio is very polarized the school would like a certain gender over the other (like CalTech prefers girls over boys).</p>
<p>Go to College</a> Navigator - National Center for Education Statistics</p>
<p>Plug in the name of the college and then click on admissions....it will give you an admission rate for males and females at that college. For example, I was just looking at the College of William and Mary. For males, admission rate of 43 percent; for females, 28 percent. It's not always lopsided in favor of men, though, so don't assume that, even for LACs.</p>
<p>Caltech doesn't really prefer girls over boys. They're held to the exact same admissions standards as everyone else. It's just that we spend more time trying to convince them to come once they get in. The reason that their admissions rate is higher is that they're usually more focused than many boys (a lot of whom were pressured into applying by their parents. There isn't a whole lot of math and science pressure on girls).</p>
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<p>Ditto for MIT.</p>
<p>Statistics in a vacuum can be misleading.</p>
<p>Different schools have different policies, though. Some will indeed give preference to one gender.</p>
<p>Also, the average female applicant at MIT actually has higher stats than the average male applicant. Your gender can make your application stand out, but it won't get you in unless the rest of your application is up to snuff.</p>
<p>I've seen many MIT female acceptees with stats that were much lower than males who were not accepted. I think there is a push for female engineers. Just about every other tech school admits it. Often blatantly. There may be less of differential at MIT but I think that a female has higher accept rates there is significant.</p>