Why aren’t males attending college?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Losers

They want to be a stay at home parent like you. Your daughter can support them.

Successful smart, college educated, good career men have even more women to choose from since they are a shrinking minority.

Yes - this is absolutely true. But, what this trend really means is many successful women are stuck with a sea of duds that expect them to be moms to them, as well as the kids, AND bring home the money. It's sad that it has come to this. Long ago, public education in particular abandoned our sons.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The expectation for kids to be perfect (all As, ECs curated, super scheduled days) beginning in 9th grade does not match where most boys are developmentally at age 14. Girls are ahead here. So they start off behind and it is hard to catch up.

People like this are the problem and there are now far more supports and things for girls than boys. Our boys can have all a's, EC curated, adn super scheduled days, mine do.

well good for you. Your boys are not at all typical.

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I have two boys going to T20 colleges. So, great. But I will say they both had to deal with a considerable amount of anti-boy crap from their schools. It seems like the social norm these days is very anti-male, and that sinks the weaker students. And the boo-hoo, too bad social norms among teachers, parents, and repulsive social media critters doesn't help. They're kids. They can't help being boys. And schools and society generally regard them as the enemy. And so only the strong make it through. It really is difficult for 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 year old boys to get through the garbage our society is throwing at them for being boys.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are busy voting for maga perhaps?

I was gonna say that!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They are busy voting for maga perhaps?

I was gonna say that!

And that's part of the problem. People assume boys are trash. You're not getting boys into good colleges with that kind of mothering.

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Gaming

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My daughter is an engineering major and is surrounded by a sea of guys. It’s maybe 10-15% girls in most of her classes. But yeah damn those girls for taking 10-15% of the spots that should go to boys. Girls who code is clearly an awful, anti boy club. Girls should be cooking and cleaning.

My son is a humanities major and the stats for boys in those majors is less competitive than the stats for girls which likely helped him. There are more girls but no where near the gap in the engineering majors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So many of the colleges we have looked at have gender imbalances with higher rates of females. What’s happening?

they're dumbing themselves down, watching tiktok, listening to joe rogan and voting trump.

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What’s the point of going to college when they can’t get a job?
DS did his degree in microbiology. Hasn’t found a job in his field even though he applied to 100’s of positions.
The same is true with his classmates. There are those who went to grad school. The others are working minimum wage jobs that don’t require any degree.
DS is now attending a trade school to make decent money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is an engineering major and is surrounded by a sea of guys. It’s maybe 10-15% girls in most of her classes. But yeah damn those girls for taking 10-15% of the spots that should go to boys. Girls who code is clearly an awful, anti boy club. Girls should be cooking and cleaning.

My son is a humanities major and the stats for boys in those majors is less competitive than the stats for girls which likely helped him. There are more girls but no where near the gap in the engineering majors.

I'm sure your daughter earned her spot in engineering. Absolutely no one is suggesting she should be cooking and cleaning. You are diminishing her by making things about gender.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter is an engineering major and is surrounded by a sea of guys. It’s maybe 10-15% girls in most of her classes. But yeah damn those girls for taking 10-15% of the spots that should go to boys. Girls who code is clearly an awful, anti boy club. Girls should be cooking and cleaning.

My son is a humanities major and the stats for boys in those majors is less competitive than the stats for girls which likely helped him. There are more girls but no where near the gap in the engineering majors.

I'm sure your daughter earned her spot in engineering. Absolutely no one is suggesting she should be cooking and cleaning. You are diminishing her by making things about gender.

The OP’s post is claiming there is a gender imbalance favoring girls. Other posts bemoaned programs to support girls going into male dominated fields. Engineering is still 90% male dominated.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is an engineering major and is surrounded by a sea of guys. It’s maybe 10-15% girls in most of her classes. But yeah damn those girls for taking 10-15% of the spots that should go to boys. Girls who code is clearly an awful, anti boy club. Girls should be cooking and cleaning.

My son is a humanities major and the stats for boys in those majors is less competitive than the stats for girls which likely helped him. There are more girls but no where near the gap in the engineering majors.

I'm sure your daughter earned her spot in engineering. Absolutely no one is suggesting she should be cooking and cleaning. You are diminishing her by making things about gender.

The OP’s post is claiming there is a gender imbalance favoring girls. Other posts bemoaned programs to support girls going into male dominated fields. Engineering is still 90% male dominated.

Yeah but there's now a concerted effort to populate stem departments with less qualified, lower stats females in college admissions. Check back in a few years.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the point of going to college when they can’t get a job?
DS did his degree in microbiology. Hasn’t found a job in his field even though he applied to 100’s of positions.
The same is true with his classmates. There are those who went to grad school. The others are working minimum wage jobs that don’t require any degree.
DS is now attending a trade school to make decent money.

How is this possible? Is he trying to get a job in remote Alaska? There are so many unfilled jobs out there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the point of going to college when they can’t get a job?
DS did his degree in microbiology. Hasn’t found a job in his field even though he applied to 100’s of positions.
The same is true with his classmates. There are those who went to grad school. The others are working minimum wage jobs that don’t require any degree.
DS is now attending a trade school to make decent money.

How is this possible? Is he trying to get a job in remote Alaska? There are so many unfilled jobs out there.

There aren't that many open jobs in the sciences, especially for white and Asian males who have to stand behind less qualified women and DEI hires when applying.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is an engineering major and is surrounded by a sea of guys. It’s maybe 10-15% girls in most of her classes. But yeah damn those girls for taking 10-15% of the spots that should go to boys. Girls who code is clearly an awful, anti boy club. Girls should be cooking and cleaning.

My son is a humanities major and the stats for boys in those majors is less competitive than the stats for girls which likely helped him. There are more girls but no where near the gap in the engineering majors.

I'm sure your daughter earned her spot in engineering. Absolutely no one is suggesting she should be cooking and cleaning. You are diminishing her by making things about gender.

The OP’s post is claiming there is a gender imbalance favoring girls. Other posts bemoaned programs to support girls going into male dominated fields. Engineering is still 90% male dominated.

If you have a source for that being widely the case at the college level, let’s hear it. You are wrong. More than a few times in HS and college my kid found an exciting program to apply for only to learn it was intended for females or URMs. At some point they stop looking. Doesn’t matter that he had nearly perfect APs and SAT scores. You can pretend it’s not happening, but it is.