Gender Diversity
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Anonymous
I’ve heard incels whining that women don’t want men to approach them on campus. Do men still talk to women who are in the same class like they did back in my ancient pre-internet college days? How did your college DD meet her boyfriend? Please tell me they’re not using the apps on campus. |
Anonymous
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A good read on this issue -
Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game by Jon Birger |
Anonymous
+1 My kids had no desire to attend a campus with grossly imbalanced genders. |
Anonymous
| It sounds like boys can pretty much clean up. |
Anonymous
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Will take on the second part of the question. Outside of the highly enlightened folks on DCUM no one cares about diversity. People are tribal and want to be with people like themselves.
This is why you will see schools like Wake Forest and others that have tumbled in the USNWR stay the course because they know an ever growing number of students will seek out the traditional college experience over the current trend to have a highly “diversified” campus. |
Anonymous
Maybe at certain LACs. Not at larger state schools that have engineering. |
Anonymous
After we visited the NESCACs, DS glumly noted the lack of good looking girls on campus. |
Anonymous
I'm not the poster but look at Brown, so many more women apply than men. So yes, I think many women were more qualified than the men selected but I have seen the amount of complaints about balancing classes for gender as race. They are both protected classes. It will be interesting to see if gender makes it to the supreme court or not. It is funny when schools allow women or men into balance the population they are all qualified applicants but no one believes that the minorities selected were qualified. I prefer balancing, I want a diverse school for race, gender, and income. I think it adds value to class discussions, friendships, and the overall community. |
Anonymous
Nope, not applying... being accepted or enrolling. Applications at tech schools often skew male and applications at LACs heavily skew female, |
Anonymous
Wow, your post sounds really bad and I think you were trying to be honest which great and I don't think you intended for it sounds so bad (or so I hope) I agree with this part, I do believe people get with their tribe which is why I think have all diversity on campus is important. . What is a traditional college experience? Schools have been integrated for decades with multiple races going to the same schools? One where minorities weren't allowed or weren't selected or they kept their numbers really low. I think when I university is heavily one race other races don't apply to it. It becomes hard to attract them to the school because no one wants to be the only at the school. Diverse people care. High achieving ones even skip top schools for other schools due to the lack of diversity. When you are the majority you have the luxury to not care but when you are in the minority you care. |
Anonymous
You mean that White people want to befriend and date only other White people? |
Anonymous
MIT numbers from common data set men who applied 21,588 women who applied 12,179 men who were admitted 661 women who were admitted 676 men who enrolled 582 women who enrolled 554 MIT gets almost double the male applicants as females and has to admit more females to almost yield a 50/50 ratio Brown numbers from the common data set men who applied 18,939 women who applied 31,710 men admitted 1,275 women admitted 1,287 men who enrolled 828 women who enrolled 889 RIT common data set men who applied 14432 women who applied 9331 men admitted 9564 women admitted 6345 men enrolled 2073 women enrolled 1016 Some schools balance and others don't. I bet you a lot of men and women don't consider or decide to attend schools that aren't balanced. The very same thing happens with race. |
Anonymous
I hope this is sarcastic and you're not the kind of person who thinks affirmative action also means that inferior candidates are being selected for jobs, because you're too dumb to do math. |
Anonymous
They're not. They have way more highly qualified candidates than spots available. |
Anonymous
Not true. It does matter to these colleges and most don't have equal numbers applying. Most have much more women applying (except CalTech and MIT). |