Is the boy:girl ratio at the liberal arts colleges a deterrent at all?
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Anonymous
There are simply more qualified females applying. These schools used to try to maintain 50/50, and before that, they had majority male. These are schools that lobbied to keep private schools out of Title IX for undergraduate admission. |
Anonymous
UCLA is 65/35 for most recent class. |
Anonymous
Interesting. Didn't someone a few pages back claim that the "best" LACs all have a 50/50 ratio? Guess not. |
Anonymous
If you're going to do a list like this, please note whether your ratio is M/W or W/M. |
Anonymous
Amherst was weird this year. Their CDS for this year shows they admitted 727 women out of 7824 applicants (9.3%), and 497 men out of 6175 (8%). 289 women enrolled (39.8% yield) vs 225 men (45.2% yield) The year before, by comparison: 687 women admitted out of 5785 (11.9%), 567 men admitted out of 4818 (11.7%), 215 men enrolled (37.9%), 219 women enrolled (31.8%). I'm guessing they were anticipating a low yield among females again, so they overshot admitting them only to find out the gap shrunk. |
Anonymous
58 to 59 percent female. 41 percent male |
Anonymous
Amherst does not care about M/F. Only cares about not being majority white. |
Anonymous
This makes no sense. The percent of both can't increase. One goes up or one goes down )or stays the same). Once it was mostly male. By the 1980s it was 50/50. Over the last 20 years the percentage of men have been dropping fast. Not a new or recent trend. Also we are talking percentages. It matters not if the population shrinks. The percentages have been trending bad for a long time. |
Anonymous
It’s m/w |
Anonymous
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I am female and went to a LAC with a skewed ratio 20 years ago. I was worried about this as an incoming freshman, but I ended up having a serious boyfriend for most of my time there. Most of my friends were also in relationships. It really wasn't the problem I feared it would be.
Ironically, I went to grad school somewhere that was skewed the other way and met my husband there. Although the M:F ratio was definitely in my favor, as they said, the odds were good but the goods were odd. I went on a lot of bad dates in grad school with weird CS/engineering students. Finding a good match in undergrad seemed easier. You can't really know what the M:F ratio is going to do for your dating life. |
Anonymous
It seems like a good place to meet a potential partner. Perhaps better than meeting someone online. |
Anonymous
+1 Same experiences here. |
Anonymous
The percent of males going to college compared to all college-aged males, and the percent of females going to college compared to all college-aged females. Both percentages are increasing, but females are increasing at a higher rate. At the same time, the gross numbers of college-aged people are going down so you have to pay attention to that. This is just added information to the simple comparison of how many males to females in a given year, at a given college, and is an important context to think about. |
Anonymous
| It should be. My DD didn’t think a whole lot about it. Now she’s a freshman at a female-lopsided SLAC where the hook-up culture is out of control and even the dorkiest guys get hot girls. Forget about finding a boyfriend in that environment. |
Anonymous
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I've read a decent amount about the hostility higher ed has toward male applicants and, honestly, though much of it was overblown.
I've started to change my view. The fact that 60% of the applicants are female (noted upthread) and that so many SLACs lean heavily female highlights that *something significant* is happening with males. |