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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]

I can’t think of a top LAC that has less than 40 percent males other than Vassar. (To be fair Vassar is the only top 30 LAC that was once a woman’s college.) Better LACs are able to attract more qualified male students so they should be able to exceed national averages.

As far as the danger zone, it’s consensus among admissions departments. For example:

“At some point — whether that’s 60/40 or beyond — interest in enrolling at any institution could be impacted negatively for all students if that balance disappears,” Tim Wolfe, dean of admissions at the College of William & Mary, said in an email.

https://hechingerreport.org/an-unnoticed-result-of-the-decline-of-men-in-college-its-harder-for-women-to-get-in/
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Thanks for the link to the article. Vassar might well be unusual given its origins as a women's college, and perhaps because of its historical strength in the "arts" (these days the most popular majors are econ, math, psych, biology, computer science, and poli sci, according to their factbook).

The quote indicates that interest in enrolling "could be" impacted negatively.  Based on the data on Vassar's website that doesn't seem to be the case, at least for Vassar.[/quote]

The good news is with a 1.4B endowment they will always be able to buy a lot of male students [/quote]

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