Alumni to sue MIT for sex discrimination in admissions

Washington Examiner ^ | 1/10/24 | Breccan F. Thies

[CFW]

Alumni of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are preparing to sue the school for allegedly rejecting male applicants in favor of “artificially” increasing the percentage of female students.

The group FairAdmissions@MIT, a nonprofit organization formed by the alumni, is seeking male plaintiffs who, despite having top-tier applications, nonetheless were rejected from the prestigious school.

“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,” Mark J. Perry, the group’s president, said in a press release on Wednesday. “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.”

Students for Fair Admissions is a legal nonprofit group that appealed a lawsuit challenging affirmative action at Harvard University to the Supreme Court, resulting in a ruling that declared race-based college admissions unconstitutional.

[CFW]

I think the push-back has begun.

[I want the USA back]

They have billions stashed away. Redistributing half of that would be just recompense for those who were victims of deliberate discrimination.

[rottndog]

This is good. Use the law...according to the courts, ANY discrepancy between school demographics and population demographics is in and of itself proof of bias and discrimination in admissions. Right now, college enrollment is a 60-40 split, women over men. The courts should be forced to reconcile this.

[Gnome1949]

This Ivy League universities need to be destroyed and abandoned. They have no interest in the objective truth or fairness. They are captured by communists and racists.

[Varda]

This is more than push back. Female admissions in STEM is the heart and soul of admissions affirmative action.

[Sgt_Schultze]

A geek uprising is an unexpected development.

[Honorary Serb]

I’m a undergrad alumnus of MIT, and a PhD alumnus of Harvard.

And I say BRAVO for “ FairAdmissions@MIT”!!

[bankwalker]

watch and see what Ackman does to them ...

[Honorary Serb]

WRONG!

Ivy League and other top-tier universities are a US national resource! They need to be saved, not abandoned!

The ones who have captured these universities are corrupt plutocrats like Chicago’s Penny Pritzker! They are the ones who have turned them over to incompetents like Claudine Gay and DEI advocates like Sally Kornbluth.

They don’t care if the faculty becomes overwhelmingly leftist. A strong, more conservative faculty might revolt and turn the plutocrats out, aided by like-minded alumni! Many alumni are already onboard with doing this!

[Pearls Before Swine]

#MeToo, except for the Harvard part.

[BobL]

“I think the push-back has begun.”

I hope so. The laws are specifically written to protect ALL people, not just ‘historically underrepresented’ types. Time to APPLY THE LAW against them.