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[quote=Anonymous]Whatever did men do when universities were predominantly male?  Maybe we can learn from that.  They certainly didn't rally for some of their classmates to lose their spots in college so that the dating opportunities in campus would be better.  At Harvard, the men dated and later married women from Wellesley and Lesley. But they would never have thought that Harvard should change its admissions so that college boys could find easier dates on campus.

I'd suggest the same now.  If your daughter is at a university now and frustrated at not having as many boys on campus, ask her which of her classmates she would wish hadn't been admitted to the university (and have the academic and professional opportinites) in order to provide a more readily available dating life.

In my view, college is a time for personal growth, building strong academic and preprofessional skills, and hopefully building a friendship group that may last a lifetime.  But gone are the days that women or men go to college to find a spouse and settle down.  "Mrs." degrees are a think of the past. So I don't think it makes too much of a difference whether the gender numbers are equal. I'm a mom of a boy and a girl, both in college.

And for girls who are complaining they can't find a boyfriend as a result of boys not making it through admissions process, I'd advise they aim higher.[/quote]

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