does the female>male ratio at schools impact the experience for girls?

[Anonymous]

This was absolutely a factor in the SLAC I attended in the late 80s and my own daughter definitely had an equal male/female ratio as one of her criteria. Luckily, her top choice school is very balanced.

[Anonymous]

The young men at Tulane have a reputation for being cocky and noncommittal due to the gender ratio. Definitely makes dating harder for the girls

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD is at UVA which is not severely unbalanced but it is and it is very hard to find guys who are interested in dating. Meanwhile my DS had no trouble finding girls to date there.

My DD is at UVA too. Her two older brothers also attend/attended. Their experiences are fairly similar to the PP above. I will say, while my DD is asked out on dates frequently, mainly for fraternity events, these dates are almost always one and done. If she likes the guy and asks him out on a second date, his answer is usually no thanks. She is in a STEM field so she's likely around more guys than many of the female students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Years ago when the imbalance was the other way, there was a lot of focus on getting more women to study at university, and rightfully so.

Now that it's majority female -- a 3:2 female:male ratio at most universities -- where is the push to get more men to study?

Wasn't that called the "Leave no child behind" policy?

[Anonymous]

men who went to college before were middle class, now men who go to college think they are "it", much harder for women to find quality men

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:men who went to college before were middle class, now men who go to college think they are "it", much harder for women to find quality men

its really unfair, no matter what happens guy end up with the advantage--before in jobs and maybe even now, but definitely now in dating

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m perplexed by this and think it stinks, especially for girls. Was at a tour at UVM earlier this year and learned it is about 65% female. Our guide said it wasn’t too noticeable in her STEM classes, but otherwise you can feel the imbalance.

In addition to how this negatively impacts the dating scene for women, I hate how girls are at a real disadvantage in the admissions process.

Went to 65% female school (and high lesbianism). The women figured out that we were all smart and managed to keep high standards. So, don't settle or fight over the boys. The boys were dicks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m perplexed by this and think it stinks, especially for girls. Was at a tour at UVM earlier this year and learned it is about 65% female. Our guide said it wasn’t too noticeable in her STEM classes, but otherwise you can feel the imbalance.

In addition to how this negatively impacts the dating scene for women, I hate how girls are at a real disadvantage in the admissions process.

Went to 65% female school (and high lesbianism). The women figured out that we were all smart and managed to keep high standards. So, don't settle or fight over the boys. The boys were dicks.

yes but dont see many w/w couples raising kids-even when I lived in highly lesbian so cali.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m perplexed by this and think it stinks, especially for girls. Was at a tour at UVM earlier this year and learned it is about 65% female. Our guide said it wasn’t too noticeable in her STEM classes, but otherwise you can feel the imbalance.

In addition to how this negatively impacts the dating scene for women, I hate how girls are at a real disadvantage in the admissions process.

?? Wouldn’t girls be at a larger disadvantage if they only allotted 50 percent of the spots for females??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD wants school that skews male. You also have to look at str8/gay ratio to see your dating options.

They are all STEM schools...RIT, RPI, etc. that are like 75% male and 25% female.

OP here. We've been touring these types of schools as my daughter wants to study engineering. There are a lot of men but frankly, not men that most girls want to date. We were at Georgia Tech this weekend and my daughter (who honestly is not picky about boys) probabably saw a dozen boys that she found attractive. The rest appeared super, super geeky and odd. I'm married to a geek (so I appreciate geeks) but this was next level.

[Anonymous]

Because my car died today, I met a very well-spoken and personable young AAA truck driver today. He was college aged and quite intelligent. I'm not sure what drove his decision, but his career choices (and those of others like him) are not helping the college dating scene for our daughters!

It's also impacting the experience of girls who are applying to college. Because there are so many more girls than boys applying to schools, and admissions folks try to "balance" gender by accepting a higher percentage of male applicants, admissions are much, much more competitive for girls at many popular schools such as Brown, Vassar etc.
I guess if you want to meet boys, go to trade school!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD wants school that skews male. You also have to look at str8/gay ratio to see your dating options.

They are all STEM schools...RIT, RPI, etc. that are like 75% male and 25% female.

OP here. We've been touring these types of schools as my daughter wants to study engineering. There are a lot of men but frankly, not men that most girls want to date. We were at Georgia Tech this weekend and my daughter (who honestly is not picky about boys) probabably saw a dozen boys that she found attractive. The rest appeared super, super geeky and odd. I'm married to a geek (so I appreciate geeks) but this was next level.

This made me chuckle but I know what you mean.

[Anonymous]

Not the same as undergrad, but I went to a top mba program in the early 2000s where the average age was 29 and the ratio was 2/3 male. You would have thought the straight single women would love that if they were interested in dating, right?

Wrong, because most of the men were dating women who were teachers, nurses, and in more traditional female jobs.

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately K-12 is taught by majority female and boys struggle more. Because of this, they burn out and aren’t interested in college. The problem needs to be fixed at that level. Make it more enjoyable for boys, not just sit all day and take notes.

[Anonymous]

Poor boys…how will they ever manage to keep all the money and power?