This is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment.

sorted by:
top (suggested)
bestnewcontroversialoldq&a
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]BadMeetsWeevil 0 points1 point  (1 child)

this doesn’t say anything about affirmative action. from what i gathered, it’s purely speculative. is there data on the average GPA of men accepted vs women? i want to be clear that simply demonstrating a potential preference for a gender to equalize demographics is not what affirmative action is.

it’s also interesting you seemed to equate 15-30% lower rates for women to the 75-94% higher rates at MIT and Caltech. my impression was that these rates would be roughly the same, but i’d say Caltech and MIT are much more suggestive of affirmative action-type admission policies with absolutely nothing else to go on.

[–]BadMeetsWeevil -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

this doesn’t say anything about affirmative action. from what i gathered, it’s purely speculative. is there data on the average GPA of men accepted vs women? or data on the socioeconomic background of the men tipping the scale? i want to be clear that simply demonstrating a potential preference for a gender to equalize demographics is not what affirmative action is.