<p>But now you seem to be saying that the stats of applicants and students are so similar as to be “meaningless.” So, in what way, exactly, can the pool of female applicants be “better” than the pool of male applicants? If there are subjective criteria being used, it is certainly possible that there is an unconscious bias toward female applicants. Without more data, we are simply left with a school that says it makes no gender distinctions, but which accepts 17.5% of male applicants and 30% of female applicants. People can simply choose to believe whatever explanation best fits their worldview.</p>