"majority of college students female"

[Anonymous]

Brown:

Total first-time, first-year (freshman) men who applied: 12467
Total first-time, first-year (freshman) women who applied: 17964
Total first-time, first-year (freshman) men who were admitted: 1319
Total first-time, first-year (freshman) women who were admitted: 1342

This one definitely follows the prior posters assertions to a T. Damn - that is a huge difference in the applicant pool.

[Anonymous]

Wesleyan University.

Male Applicants: 3,993
Female Applicants: 6,053
Total Acceptances: 2,102
Male Acceptances: 911
Female Acceptances: 1,191

[Anonymous]

So, the above are what we would call "anecdotes." The patterns of applications and acceptances vary greatly from school to school depending on a number of different factors. Any given observation tells you nothing about the overall pattern.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Wesleyan University.

Male Applicants: 3,993
Female Applicants: 6,053
Total Acceptances: 2,102
Male Acceptances: 911
Female Acceptances: 1,191

woah - guys should definitely apply here and girls use their time looking elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In dateconomics the author talks about this being an issue why college educated women can't find college educated men to marry and predicts the numbers will become worse.

Hahaha. Lots of women are choosing not to marry.

[Anonymous]

Vassar:
Total Applicants: 7,597
Male Applicants: 2,376
Female Applicants: 5,221
Total Acceptances: 1,832
Male Acceptances: 810
Female Acceptances: 996

Tufts:
Male Applicants: 7,795
Female Applicants: 10,611
Total Acceptances: 3,471
Male Acceptances: 1,666
Female Acceptances: 1,803

Williams
Male Applicants: 3,277
Female Applicants: 3,792
Total Acceptances: 1,203
Male Acceptances: 582
Female Acceptances: 621

Pomona
Male Applicants: 2,963
Female Applicants: 4,493
Total Acceptances: 966
Male Acceptances: 471
Female Acceptances: 495

Our daughters face much stiffer odds.

[Anonymous]

Here is one bright spot for girls:

Rice
Total Applicants: 15,415
Male Applicants: 7,937
Female Applicants: 7,478
Total Acceptances: 2,581
Male Acceptances: 1,312
Female Acceptances: 1,269

[Anonymous]

Why don't more girls apply to MIT and CMU for their social science or lib arts departments? They do have those majors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Book Summary:
"It’s not that he’s just not that into you—it’s that there aren’t enough of him. And the numbers prove it. Using a combination of demographics, statistics, game theory, and number-crunching, Date-onomics tells what every single, college-educated, heterosexual, looking-for-a-partner woman needs to know: The “man deficit” is real. It’s a fascinating, if sobering read, with two critical takeaways: One, it’s not you. Two, knowledge is power, so here’s what to do about it.

The shortage of college-educated men is not just a big-city phenomenon frustrating women in New York and L.A. Among young college grads, there are four eligible women for every three men nationwide. This unequal ratio explains not only why it’s so hard to find a date, but a host of social issues, from the college hookup culture to the reason Salt Lake City is becoming the breast implant capital of America."

That book is completely bullshit because it wants to have its cake and eat it too. It wants women to be equal earners and equally educated with men (great idea - truly fully support this but hasn't been this historic norm) but it doesn't want women to do what men have done since the beginning of time (date and marry someone of lower education/lower earners).

So yes 'it is you'. "you" are free to be as open minded as men when it comes to dating (i.e. change the historical norm for women just as the female education/earning gap has changed over history), which would relieve pressure in the 'market place'.

Well there is truth to what you say, there are additional nuances as well. When men choose to marry less educated Women, often and less lucrative careers, they often gain the ability to dedicate more of their time to their careers, and less time to managing the household and raising children. At this time, it seems far less customary for women who marry less educated man to have that same ability, due to our cultures gender stereotyping about who should perform a professional and domestic roles. As that changes over time, hopefully men and women alike will be feeling more free to be flexible and their professional and domestic rolls, to suit their individual preferences and skills, and not just a gender stereotype. At this time, it appears in many communities that it is fine for a man to marry his professional peer or someone who is less successful, but it would seem emasculating for a man to marry a woman who is more professionally successful and whose career is more responsible for supporting the family and their lifestyle. Changes slow, but hopefully coming.