Interesting. From the Bonus Commentary:

“The current analysis revealed the female:male preference ratios for student admissions at four major technical universities in the U.S.: Caltech, Carnegie Mellon University, Georgia Tech, and MIT. Since 2001, all these universities have consistently received considerably more applications from males than females. Yet, the percentage of females who have been admitted to these universities has typically been greater than the percentage of males who have been admitted. Consequently, the female:male preference ratio in admissions has consistently been well above 1.0 for these universities…

According to Frezza, the head of admissions at MIT has allegedly suggested that the reasons for MIT’s high female:male preference ratio is that MIT receives significantly more applications from males than females because males overrate their capabilities, plus, the pool of female applicants is consistently twice as good as the pool of male applicants. Frezza suggested that one way to examine the validity of this claim would be for the university to release the SAT scores of the males and females who are admitted and denied admission.”

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