What's new
- Profile → Admissions: acceptance rates for men and women. A "Men and women" card appears when the gap is 3+ points and each group has 200+ applicants. Otherwise one line sits under the funnel, such as Vanderbilt's "similar rates (5.9% and 5.8%)". A neutral chip marks the top 5% of gaps among larger colleges (about 46 colleges).
- Profile → Test scores: each college's own median appears as a ring on its score bars, and ACT English and Math ranges sit under the composite, the way SAT sections already did.
- Over time → Admissions: acceptance rates for men and women from fall 2001.
- Explore: an "Admit rate, men / women" column and an "Admit rate gap" sort. Compare: a new row.
- Glossary: admit rate by sex, and median vs. midpoint.
Behind the scenes
- Coverage: rates by sex for 1,586 colleges, SAT medians for 927, ACT medians for 895, ACT sections for about 846. No existing value changed.
- A federal median is never drawn on a score range that came from a college's own Common Data Set.
- About half of colleges show the "Men and women" card, because 708 of 1,300 have a gap of 3+ points (women higher at 600, men at 108).
- No Home fact: colleges admitting men at a notably higher rate fell from 13% to 6% over 20 years, a steady drift rather than a surprise. It became the first national trends study instead.
Second of the five wave 1 specs: admissions-detail.md.