The gender gap at Yale is widening, but apparently, its gender bias isn’t going anywhere.

Last fall, roughly 2,281 more women than men applied to Yale, the largest gender disparity amongst applicants to every Ivy League university. And yet, 68 more men than women received acceptance letters.

Is it an issue of gender bias during the application process – or a simple matter of stronger male applicants?

According to the Yale Daily News, the administration has no idea.

Internal research by the admissions office has shown that men and women admitted to Yale are equally qualified, Brenzel said. The research also found that applicants of both genders face no statistically significant difference in their chances of admission.

[…] Still, the difference in acceptance rates for male and female applicants — which has grown from 12 to 30 percent in the past six years — has prompted the admissions office to seek assistance from the Committee on Yale College Admissions Policy, co-chaired by University President Richard Levin and incoming College Dean Mary Miller.

[…] “We’re not quite sure why this is happening, and we’d like to do some work to see what’s going on there,” Levin said in an interview Sunday.

Granted, given the significantly greater number of female applicants, it’s statistically sound to see more rejections.

However, the fact that more men were accepted in spite of the large disparity means more than 2,300 women received rejection letter than men.

That is astronomical, and a testament to the fact that gender bias is alive and well at Yale.