corpdevtoM7 wrote:
Yeah, but remember we compete with our own buckets so not a big deal. I'm just really impressed with the number of female wharton accepts each round. Makes me feel at a huge disadvantage.
Why would you have a disadvantage?
Yeah, I'm not sure I understand. Why does a high number of women getting in automatically mean that Wharton is biasing itself against male applicants?
People get in off waitlist bc after reviewing R2, wharton realizes there are not enough matriculants from a particular bucket and call WLers in that bucket to fill seats. It's safe to assume that there will be a large volume of competitive non-URM male banker/consultant applicants in R2 i.e. Wharton will not need to reach to WL to fill seats in this bucket. Clearly, the more female seats wharton wants to fill the more likely a female will be to be pulled off WL.
I'm interested in seeing how many non-URM male traditional candidates are called from waitlist...my gut is that WL admits are diversity (demographics/work experience).
If Wharton knows the target % of females they want in the class, I'm sure the WL reflects that same %. Meaning, from a numbers standpoint, there will be more 'traditional candidates' who decline wharton than those from 'non-traditional' backgrounds. That will probably mean more people who come off the WL are from the 'traditional bucket.'
Also, jlgdr's message of this making him (assuming he is a male) feel he has a huge disadvantage is a bit comical. Women are the ones who have a true disadvantage in business school and in the business world. The focus on increasing the number of women in bschools is to help fix this problem. For someone to say they, as a male, are at a huge disadvantage, is bullshit.