MIT's War Against Men...

Correct. I’m seeing a lot of responses suggesting female applicants could be just that much better to account for their higher acceptance rates at MIT. That’s probably not true by quantitative metrics, though MIT could very easily just release some raw numbers — they won’t, of course, which tells you what the answer is. I say probably not true because if you look at male:female distributions at the top ranges of SAT scores, men outperform women by a fair degree. The College Board that administers the SAT interestingly doesn’t explicitly give score breakdowns by gender anymore (why would that be?) Here’s some data from 2011 with M:F SAT distributions at >1500. There are 1.5-2x more boys that score a 1500+ than there are women. There are a lot of great options for these very smart boys not getting into MIT, and I’m sure the girls admitted are very impressive and will do fine at MIT. But let’s be honest about what’s happening here.

— Anish Koka, MD (@anish_koka) October 31, 2026