MIT Gender Controversy News
For Immediate Release 4/29/2024
FairAdmissions@MIT Steps up its Fight for Equality at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge (MA) – Today, FairAdmissions@MIT publicly announced its next steps as a new volunteer advocacy group dedicated to stopping sex discrimination in undergraduate admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). America First Legal has agreed to provide pro bono legal advisory services and primary litigation representation in support of this mission.
Male undergraduate applicants with stellar records who were rejected by MIT are urged to visit https://fairadmissionsmit.org/ to confidentially share their stories and join the organization as it fights for equal treatment for all applicants and students at MIT.
FairAdmissions@MIT is an all-volunteer, not-for-profit 501(c)(3), single-issue advocacy group. We advocate that MIT’s admissions policy should be sex-blind and based on individual merit, objectively accepting the most academically qualified individuals rather than socially engineering an artificially constructed entering class that can only be achieved by discriminating against male applicants.
For decades, admissions data show that female undergraduate applicants to MIT are admitted at twice the rate as male applicants. Even though every year twice as many males apply as females, every entering MIT class ends up artificially gender balanced.
Sex discrimination at MIT is widespread and systemic even beyond its admissions practices, notwithstanding MIT’s legal obligation as a recipient of federal funds to actively enforce Title IX, which clearly “prohibits discrimination based on sex in education programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance.”
Statement from Mark J. Perry, President of FairAdmissions@MIT
“As two decades of admissions data demonstrate, MIT has, from a merit-based perspective, inexplicably rejected male college students or recent graduates who had top SAT/ACT scores, great GPAs, strong recommendations, and substantial extra-curricular activities. This appears to indicate illegal discrimination from MIT against young men, simply because they are men,” explained Mark J. Perry, President of FairAdmissions@MIT. “We intend to do whatever it takes, including by bringing the fight to federal court, to prevent sex discrimination at MIT.”
FOR PRESS INQUIRIES, CONTACT
Mark J. Perry, President, FairAdmissions@MIT, mjperry@umich.edu
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For Immediate Release 1/10/2024
FairAdmissions@MIT launches campaign to compel the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to abide by federal civil rights laws prohibiting sex discrimination
Cambridge (MA) – FairAdmissions@MIT, in conjunction with outside counsel, is preparing litigation to compel the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to stop violating Title IX’s prohibition of sex discrimination and start abiding by federal civil rights laws as well as its own published nondiscrimination policies.
More than two decades of admissions data show that female undergraduate applicants to MIT are admitted at twice the rate as male applicants. Even though year after year twice as many males apply as females, every entering MIT class ends up artificially gender balanced. In violation of Title IX, MIT appears to treat applicants differently based on sex, illegally discriminating against men to achieve contrived gender parity.
In addition, once students arrive on campus, MIT continues to illegally discriminate on the basis of sex by offering dozens of single-sex, female-only campus programs, scholarships, fellowships, prizes, funds, workshops, initiatives, mentorships, certificates, and awards. Eight federal civil rights complaints have been filed against MIT for nearly 40 of those discriminatory single-sex female-only programs, all of which facially violate Title IX. These complaints are currently under review at the Boston Office for Civil Rights.
Sex discrimination at MIT is widespread and systemic, notwithstanding MIT’s legal obligation as a recipient of federal funds to comply with Title IX. FairAdmission@MIT’s legal action is intended to compel MIT to follow Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 that clearly “prohibits discrimination based on sex in education programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance.”
“The first phase of our program is identifying male college students or recent graduates who had top SAT/ACT scores, great GPAs, strong recommendations, and substantial extra-curricular activities yet got rejected by MIT,” explained Mark J. Perry, President of FairAdmissions@MIT. “Our litigation strategy will mirror the successful efforts used by Students for Fair Admissions to end racial discrimination in college admissions. We intend to do the same for sex discrimination at MIT.”
Male undergraduate applicants with stellar records who were rejected by MIT are urged to visit https://fairadmissionsmit.org/ to confidentially share their stories.
About FairAdmissions@MIT
FairAdmissions@MIT is an all-volunteer, not-for-profit 501(c)(3), single-issue advocacy group. We advocate that MIT’s admissions policy should be sex-blind and based on individual merit, objectively accepting the most academically qualified individuals rather than socially engineering an artificially constructed entering class that can only be achieved by discriminating against male applicants. We have engaged outside counsel and are fully financed to take our case all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.
FOR PRESS INQUIRIES, CONTACT
Mark J. Perry, President, FairAdmissions@MIT, mjperry@umich.edu
Alumni to sue MIT for sex discrimination in admissions
Group preps to sue MIT, alleges it rejects male applicants for less-qualified female ones
The College Fix, January 10, 2024. Jennifer Kabbany, Fix Editor
‘We will challenge what we perceive to be sex discrimination in the admissions policy at MIT,’ spokesman says
A group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni are working to prepare a lawsuit against the prestigious school that accuses its leaders of unlawfully rejecting male applicants for less-qualified female ones to advance gender parity.
The alumni have formed a nonprofit called FairAdmissions@MIT and currently seek male plaintiffs rejected by MIT despite “top SAT/ACT scores, great grades, strong recommendations, and substantial extra-curricular activities,” the group’s website states.
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The MIT Gender Admissions Controversy
Heterodox STEM, September 17, 2023
“Rivers of ink have been spilled analyzing the recent Supreme Court ruling ending overt race-based affirmative action for college admissions. It begs the question; will this precedent also apply to overt gender discrimination?”
“I’ve been following the use of Disparate Impact Analysis as a legal tool to support claims of systemic bias and illegal discrimination for years and have rarely seen data this lopsided. Not only do female MIT applicants have more than double the acceptance rate compared to males, but the mathematical consistency over the years suggests the clear use of a gender quota system.”
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Diversity or Merit?
MIT Admissions Office, October 13, 2011
“When we admit a class of students to MIT, it’s as if we’re choosing a 1,000-person team to climb a very interesting, fairly rugged mountain – together. We obviously want people who have the training, stamina and passion for the climb. At the same time, we want each to add something useful or intriguing to the team, from a wonderful temperament or sense of humor, to compelling personal experiences, to a wide range of individual gifts, talents, interests and achievements. We are emphatically not looking for a batch of identical perfect climbers; we are looking for a richly varied team of capable people who will support, surprise and inspire each other.”
“In assembling this class we consider many, many, many factors holistically in our process.”
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Meet Dr. Mark J. Perry, civil rights advocate
Do No Harm, December 4, 2023
Mark J. Perry, Ph.D. is a senior fellow at Do No Harm, and he’s been busy.
Mark joined us a little more than a year ago. Since then, he’s filed more than 110 complaints with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) against U.S. medical schools for race-based and sex-based discrimination.
Of those complaints, 38 have been opened so far for investigation, and most have been resolved in our favor. And that’s just since Mark joined us—in total, he’s filed nearly 900 federal civil rights complaints over the last five years for more than 2,000 violations of Title VI (race-based discrimination) and Title IX (sex-based discrimination) at more than 800 colleges and universities.
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