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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/magazine/men-college-enrollment.html

‘There Was Definitely a Thumb on the Scale to Get Boys’
Declining male enrollment has led many colleges to adopt an unofficial policy: affirmative action for men.

According to the article, it's pervasive at the majority of colleges, since most of them wish to be within waving distance of gender parity.

Take-aways:
1. Girls overachieving in school compared to boys (a fact of life since the 1980s) actually hurts them in college admissions, since they need a better application profile to be considered on an equal footing with boys.
2. Colleges try to appeal to boys: one way is to provide more college sports, which then ensures that a significant proportion of boys are recruited athletes, which then has an impact on school culture: academic girls, less-academic boys.
3. Gender imbalance on campus counter-intuitively can trigger a scarcity dating mindset, which means that women may believe they need to accept all sorts of things they might not have accepted had the pool of available dates been larger. On other words, hook-up culture.
4. In the wider world, the implications of fewer men graduating than women is concerning as well: some people are worried about the group of males without college degrees who may be unable to earn enough to support a family, and may not find a wife or have kids, possibly leading to toxic masculinity issues.
5. Finally, the article raises the question of what our broader conversation should be surrounding privilege and who has access to college, if the real beneficiaries of affirmative action are males?

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Too bad the SCOTUS said that sort it thing is illegal now[/quote]

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