<p>is it true that females have a better chance of getting accepted at MIT (than males) because the average rate of females in science-related careers are dropping? i don<code>t know myself, but i</code>ve heard this from a lot of people. could someone confirm this?</p>
<p>from what i've heard, that used to be true, but is not anymore. but like you, i have no confirmation on this, it's only what i've heard.</p>
<p>I can't give you a reason, but statistically, the ratio of accepted females to female applicants is about three times as high as the ratio of accepted men to male applicants.</p>
<p>% of men accepted: 13%
% of women accepted: 29%</p>
<p>and this is from what year?</p>
<p>iwantfood.. i want a link</p>
<p>i second that.</p>
<p>i found something else, though:</p>
<p>-----In the 1997-98 academic year: MIT was 40% female, 60% male and had a 35% female acceptance rate and a 20% male acceptance rate. <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/%7Ezozo/gap/college/fields.html">http://www.stanford.edu/~zozo/gap/college/fields.html</a></p>
<p>i found more stuff - from CC itself.</p>
<p>Being a girl should indeed give you an advantage at top engineering schools. For instance, for the fall of 2003, MIT had 10,549 applicants. Of these, only 2,898 were female. MIT accepted 29.3% of its female candidates but only 11.6 % of the males. <a href="http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/archives/000255.htm">http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/archives/000255.htm</a></p>
<p>FALL 2002 STATISTICS
"US News info for Fall 2002:
acceptance rate: 14% EA, 16% overall
EA acceptances make up 28% of freshman class
10664 applied, 1724 accepted, 978 enrolled
males: 7696 applied, 898 accepted (11.2%), 558 enrolled
females: 2968 applied, 826 accepted (27.8%), 420 enrolled
out of state: 91%
379 on waitlist, 296 accepted place on waitlist, 37 enrolled from waitlist
middle 50% SAT verbal: 680 to 760
middle 50% SAT math: 740 to 800"
<a href="http://www.collegeconfidential.com/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?8/83989">http://www.collegeconfidential.com/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?8/83989</a></p>
<p>in conclusion, females have 2.5 times the acceptance rate that males have. but this is old stuff. i need something more recent.</p>
<p>Well why the hell didnt you just do this searching by yourself in the first place?</p>
<p>because i didn<code>t FIND links in the first place.
so i turned to searching within CC.
i thought that was the last place i could find something.
i guess it didn</code>t turn out that way.</p>
<p>Although women have a higher acceptance rate, the majority of students at MIT are male (see above post). Thus, there are just seems to be more male applicants to MIT. There is no conclusive evidence of favoritism for one gender over the other.</p>
<p>yes, the number of women in engineering careers and other science careers are dropping...this is what I heard from a professor at Northeastern U.</p>
<p>"Being a girl should indeed give you an advantage at top engineering schools. For instance, for the fall of 2003, MIT had 10,549 applicants. Of these, only 2,898 were female. MIT accepted 29.3% of its female candidates but only 11.6 % of the males."</p>
<p>wouldn't it make sense to have a higher percentage of females?
because they probably have some quota or ratio they want to maintain. so say they accept 1000 males and 1000 females. then the percentage for females would be bigger since they have a smaller pool of applicants.</p>