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38% is quite low for a top 30 SLAC which tend to be in the mid 40s.  40% is the danger zone when both girls and boys are turned off by the imbalance.  So Vassar must be stretching hard to get boys if it can only muster up 38%.  The percentage of gay males also appears to be very high for any school--further exacerbating the lack of diversity.[/quote]

Haven't looked at data for all the top 30 SLACS. But if overall only 40% of college students are male, and this fraction is falling, then lots of colleges are, or will be, in your "danger zone"!  Curious to know what you envision happening in your "danger zone"--do applications and/or enrollments plummet?

Looking at the data for Vassar available online, their acceptance [i]rate[/i] for males has been falling in recent years; perhaps to bring it more in line with the acceptance rate for females. As has been true for other schools, including Swarthmore, Wesleyan, Richmond, and Boston College, Vassar's acceptance rate has been higher for men than for women.

The number of applications overall is up at Vassar (as is true for most places) and yield has held steady in the low 30s and is very similar for males and females.  Vassar's draw rate (= yield rate/acceptance rate), which some admissions professionals view as a measure of a school's market power, is higher now than it was 20 years ago.

I don't know of any data on the percentage of gay males, so can't comment on that!  [/quote]

Wesleyan has changed their approach and seems to want a 50-50 class. Male admissions much more favorable now. Check out the newly released CDS. My daughter has now ruled out applying ED as the odds went down too much and they were already low. [/quote]

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