Well, this didn't seem to help my boy during admissions...
Even rejected at some SLACs where I've seen DCUM people say a boy would get a boost, Meanwhile, those schools took lower stats/rigor LGBTQ girls from his grade instead. (I have no complaints, those girls will do great - but it just doesn't follow the narrative that "boys are in demand"). |
Lol “they” do you mean Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Kari Lake, Virginia Thomas, etc? In the US 39% of women and 33.4% of men graduate from a four year college in 2022. In 2013 it was 31.4% of women and 32% of men. These are both way up from 1940 3.8% for women and 5.5 for men. So it looks like there has always been more non college grads vs college by a lot and it will stay this way because we are about at max college attendance given resources- number of admissions spots available, numbers of colleges/universities, the cost of college(many can not afford it), time to complete(not everyone can go 4 years without working), etc.
https://www.bestcolleges.com/research/college...0million%20students. This may work its self out. Remember there are 2% more women vs men and rich women(college graduates?)have more sons vs daughters |
You can't be serious or this dense?! Did that post say that males are ONLY interested in those fields? The majority of students in the fields referenced ARE male. |
I’m not disagreeing, but when I was in high school boys were just as competitive academically as the girls. There was not this gender imbalance in the classroom. Boys today are particularly disengaged from academics - so I do believe something additional is going on. Chalking it up to simple brain maturity means you’re leaving other explanations on the table. |
No it hasn’t. SCOTUS ruled on race-based admission, but not gender. Gender discrimination has historically been reviewed under the lesser “intermediate” level, as compared to strict scrutiny for race. |
As school in general has become more drill and kill with lots of worksheets and less fun and creative work and more teaching to the test, it favors girls and boys disengage. As my 7th grade son said in reference to a friend of his who is very smart but constantly forgets to bring the correct materials to class or finish his homework "there are lots of smart boys, but the smart girls are better at school." Their school doesn't allow kids to carry their backpacks around and they only have a couple times a day to go to their lockers, so even that requires a level of organization I didn't have to have in middle school. |
Also my middle schoolers have way less time for physical activity during the school day than I had. That time for them has been replaced by 30 min a day of classroom time devoted to sitting around talking about socio emotional learning (guess who likes that more boys or girls?). Their only chance to go outside during the day is gym 2-3 times a week. |
Look at what “men” are doing? And WTF is New College? |
Well that will change now. |
^Horrible thought but I’m afraid you’re absolutely right. |
Here, hear. Complete agreement. |
Who cares what the illegitimate SCOTUS thinks these days? They also think money is speech and corporations are people. |
Another agreeing with this. Don’t forget the project based learning. It could be research and analysis into topics but is often poorly implemented as almost an arts and craft project. I saw so much of that come home in middle and high school, even in honors classes. My son wasn’t nearly as interested in coloring and making it look pretty as my daughter. He often described them as more arts and crafts than anything else. |
^ +1 |
Dumb and false — Athlete who went to elite undergrad, got PhD |