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

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Anonymous wrote: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.

There is a youtube video from many years ago that indicates why girls are doing better in school than boys. Don't hate the source, just listen to the message.
What ever happened to letting "boys be boys?" Take these two cases: In one, a seven-year-old boy was sent home for nibbling a Pop Tart into a gun. In another, a teacher was so alarmed by a picture drawn by a student (of a sword fight), that the boy's parents were summoned in for a conference. In short, boys in America's schools are routinely punished for being active, competitive, and restless. In other words, boys can no longer be boys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFpYj0E-yb4&pp=ygUacHJhZ2VyIFUgcHJvYmxlbSB3aXRoIGJveXM%3D

I.e. they're being punished for disturbing the class. If classes are going to be large, disruptions can't be allowed if anything is going to be taught

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Anonymous wrote:I thought girls ruled the world. Why would they be worried about going to school with fewer men? Wouldn’t that be a good thing?

Because that is a critical age developmentally and normal socializing/dating is a part of it. Especially for kids who were too busy to have a normal social life in HS and might finally have that chance in a residential college setting.

If that’s the case, they should stop with the male bashing.

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One effect is that more women will be "LUG"s (look it up).

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Anonymous wrote:This is a real problem without an easy solution, and the gender imbalance is going to cause a lot of consequences through young women’s lives. But in the short term, colleges need to find ways to shrink the gam. Even if it means admitting boys with lower grades and qualifications and offering generous financial aid.

I have two daughters. I don't have sons. We raised our daughters to be smart, self-sufficient.

I absolutely want this problem to be resolved because I want my daughters to have their pick of equals in the dating/marriage department. Flame away, but I don't want my daughters to choose to be gay because there are no suitable men to date.

Look at what happened to the black community over the years. Many of their men are not suitable for dating/marriage. So while the women may have babies with them, the men practically abandon their families leaving the women to raise kids in a single parent household. Look at all the problems that is creating. Serious long term damage to the black community because their men are not up to snuff.

I know there has been lots of criticism in the past on all the emphasis there is for girls and their appearance but I think there should be an emphasis to boys on their appearance as well. Put an emphasis on how boys can take care of their appearance, not get addicted to video games, all that stuff. Start building boys up in a healthy way.

Choose to be gay because there are no “suitable” men? That doesn’t make any sense. Plus, I thought homosexuality was biological. Or has all the recent rhetoric been wrong and we can choose it after all (if we have nobody else decent to be with)?

It looks like the threads have been deleted but there have absolutely been posts on this board staring the thought homosexuality was biological is wrong, old way of thinking and we are wrong to think it.

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Anonymous wrote:This whole thread is so cringe.

I agree.

what is cringe about wanting a good social atmosphere in college?

Don’t worry, idiots just like using “cringe.”

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Anonymous wrote:This is a real problem without an easy solution, and the gender imbalance is going to cause a lot of consequences through young women’s lives. But in the short term, colleges need to find ways to shrink the gam. Even if it means admitting boys with lower grades and qualifications and offering generous financial aid.

I have two daughters. I don't have sons. We raised our daughters to be smart, self-sufficient.

I absolutely want this problem to be resolved because I want my daughters to have their pick of equals in the dating/marriage department. Flame away, but I don't want my daughters to choose to be gay because there are no suitable men to date.

Look at what happened to the black community over the years. Many of their men are not suitable for dating/marriage. So while the women may have babies with them, the men practically abandon their families leaving the women to raise kids in a single parent household. Look at all the problems that is creating. Serious long term damage to the black community because their men are not up to snuff.

I know there has been lots of criticism in the past on all the emphasis there is for girls and their appearance but I think there should be an emphasis to boys on their appearance as well. Put an emphasis on how boys can take care of their appearance, not get addicted to video games, all that stuff. Start building boys up in a healthy way.

Yikes, ok, dude.

So it obviously doesn’t work that way. I was gay at a tiny tiny little slac back in the day, before people were more friendly about. Seriously, more people than not were very mean. But that meant there was absolutely no dating pool for me, which was a bummer. So I appreciate that students - the majority of whom are straight - would want more of a gender balance for a bigger dating pool. It’s part of the experience. I have middle schoolers (a boy and a girl) and when the time comes, I can imagine it might matter for them. Or maybe it won’t. Who knows.

(And for our uninformed friend above, my lack of dating pool didn’t magically turn me straight )

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Anonymous wrote:So many schools are nearing 60/40 female.
If your child attends one of these, do they notice?
Does it impact their quality of life? Dating opportunities?
Any thoughts?
thank you!

In our experience, the revealing wardrobe to standout amongst the competition for male attention was the most upsetting for us.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought girls ruled the world. Why would they be worried about going to school with fewer men? Wouldn’t that be a good thing?

Because that is a critical age developmentally and normal socializing/dating is a part of it. Especially for kids who were too busy to have a normal social life in HS and might finally have that chance in a residential college setting.

If that’s the case, they should stop with the male bashing.

When WILL a white guy in this country ever catch a break? 🙄

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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?

If you read this thread, it seems like those here believe women are the victims of being overrepresented in college. Reminds me of thar Hillary Clinton quote: "women are the real victims of war".

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Anonymous wrote:I thought girls ruled the world. Why would they be worried about going to school with fewer men? Wouldn’t that be a good thing?

Because that is a critical age developmentally and normal socializing/dating is a part of it. Especially for kids who were too busy to have a normal social life in HS and might finally have that chance in a residential college setting.

If that’s the case, they should stop with the male bashing.

When WILL a white guy in this country ever catch a break? 🙄

I know you say that sarcastically, but White Males are falling behind and not getting the breaks: Time For Left To ADMIT Boys, Men Are In CRISIS | Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ur1nDXRT6k

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Maybe we should go back to male and female colleges for some things. Would that help at all with the date rapes and so forth? Men and women are very immature the first time they are away from mom and dad. Maybe there should be fewer meetups between them.

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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.

Maybe look at the STEM departments of large universities or slightly less geeky engineering schools like VTech or NCSU. Best of luck finding an engineering schools with hot guys.

(BTW, imagine the reaction to someone complaining about their DS not finding enough attractive girls for their DS to choose from during their Vassar visit.)

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Anonymous wrote: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.

But boys sat in classrooms all day “in the old days” and yet went to college at higher rates. Something else is going on.

In the old days, college was relatively rare, even for men.

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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

Wait, wtf? Guys clearly do not have an advantage in applying to college (that’s why they’re in the minority) which automatically means a disadvantage in applying to quality jobs but you’re moaning that men have all the advantages? 🙄

They're in the minority because fewer are applying. They're opting to not go to college. They're generally getting in at higher rates.

What's your evidence for the claim that men get in at higher rates (controlling for high school achievement, of course)

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Anonymous wrote:This is a real problem without an easy solution, and the gender imbalance is going to cause a lot of consequences through young women’s lives. But in the short term, colleges need to find ways to shrink the gam. Even if it means admitting boys with lower grades and qualifications and offering generous financial aid.

So you are suggesting preferential admissions and financial support for young men, even though men have historically had greater academic and economic opportunity than women, in the name of achieving gender balance? Seriously?