This seems impossible, and checking the data (posted on wikipedia) that isn’t what happened.
That is not exactly what happened, as 2 departments exhibited a small bias towards men, but it is not impossible, and the reason is that more women applied to the more competitive departments, and so their total acceptance rate represented the departments with low overall acceptance rate more than the men’s total acceptance rate.
That is not exactly what happened, as 2 departments exhibited a small bias towards men, but it is not impossible, and the reason is that more women applied to the more competitive departments, and so their total acceptance rate represented the departments with low overall acceptance rate more than the men’s total acceptance rate.