A Generation of American Men Give Up on College: ‘I Just Feel Lost’

[Anonymous]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-university-fall-higher-education-men-women-enrollment-admissions-back-to-school-11630948233

Men are abandoning higher education in such numbers that they now trail female college students by record levels.

At the close of the 2020-21 academic year, women made up 59.5% of college students, an all-time high, and men 40.5%, according to enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse, a nonprofit research group. U.S. colleges and universities had 1.5 million fewer students compared with five years ago, and men accounted for 71% of the decline.

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The proportion of male undergraduates at UCLA fell to 41% in the fall semester of 2020 from 45% in fall 2013. Over the same period, undergraduate enrollment expanded by nearly 3,000 students. Of those spots, nine out of 10 went to women.

“We do not see male applicants being less competitive than female applicants,” UCLA Vice Provost Youlonda Copeland-Morgan said, but fewer men appl

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Huge article, must read, can’t fully copy and paste due to Jeff.

I always knew women were out enrolling men overall, but before a lot of that was driven at shit tier schools. I was shocked to see the UCLA number.

Usually tier 1 schools have good gender balance.

Even Berkeley is 54/46 women. And penn is 52/48 women.

Even sons of higher earning families fall behind their sisters

[Anonymous]

Trades.

[Anonymous]

What a bunch of whiny betas.

[Anonymous]

No sympathy. What losers

[Anonymous]

Good news for sons, now more spots for boys available as schools seek gender balance (even if they won't talk about it)

[Anonymous]

I will play my tiny violin for them.

[Anonymous]

Great! (Sarcastically) now there will be even more underpaid, in/underemployed men who feel emasculated and threatened by women and anyone who is non-white. Then they can take their realized fear of falling behind and being powerless and lash out at others and prop up people like Trump who feed their desire to feel strong and in control.

[Anonymous]

I wonder what proportion is accounted for by men going into tech, trades, and other jobs that may require experience but not a college diploma.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No sympathy. What losers

+1 so much for ‘pull yourself up by your bootstraps’. Looks like ‘pull yourself up by your bra straps’ is working.

[Anonymous]

As the mother of three boys, this whiny-nonsense pisses me off. My boys don’t feel this way since I raised them to see everyone as an equal and they never expected to be treated or judged more favorably than anyone else.

Parents failed these young men who feel defeated so young.

[Anonymous]

Maybe this is the way it should be. Women aren’t being held down and straight, white boys aren’t getting a free pass to higher education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good news for sons, now more spots for boys available as schools seek gender balance (even if they won't talk about it)

I don't think that's true. It's not as if they don't have enough male applicants to make a class 50/50. Plenty of men are getting rejection letters; they are accepting more women.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As the mother of three boys, this whiny-nonsense pisses me off. My boys don’t feel this way since I raised them to see everyone as an equal and they never expected to be treated or judged more favorably than anyone else.

Parents failed these young men who feel defeated so young.

It’s not that they aren’t treated more favorably, it’s that they are treated less so

[Anonymous]

As a mother of a boy it makes me feel sad. But I don’t see the wheels turning any time soon

[Anonymous]

Interesting. Maybe I’m an American man.