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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has any of your daughters complained about the high girl to boy ratio at their colleges?

Many of the colleges my daughter is looking at have way more girls than boys and this concerns her.[/quote]

There is definitely no dating going on.  My daughter has packs of girlfriends and is always meeting more but it's rare that she even has an opportunity to talk to a guy. The average-to-good looking guys have their pick of any girl they want.

It's kind of an issue but there's not anything to do and culturally they're all in it together. The girls just keep investing in female friendship. 
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I guess you have to make the best of the situation but ... are there really no straight guys in college to date??

are the straight guys who are there dating anyone?[/quote]

I think the situation is that because there are so many girls, only the top of the pecking order get male attention. At most schools these are Instgram-model glam for lack of a better descriptive. I know this sounds nuts but my daughter and friends who are "regular girl pretty" are fairly invisible despite being open to dating very average guys. t'a a hard dynamic and isn't helped by how busy kids are these days.[/quote]

The girls are not interested in daring average guys.

They only want the ones who look good on Instagram. [/quote]

College women are no different than the rest of American women seeking love, through OLD (and they certainly use social media in college!)  :

- 90% of the women will only accept a date with the top 5% of guys.  That is already an extremely small pool of guys.

Divide that 5% again by the number of college guys who are gay, and it easily explains why thread after thread here in the DCUM college forum say the same thing:  our daughters are not dating in college.

[b]Hooking up?  Sure.  Dating?  Nope[/b].[/quote]

Most girls are not hooking up either. If they have no interest in dating guys below the top 10%, they're not having sex with them either. From talking to my daughter, friends, friends moms, the hooking up culture is within the top 5-10% (in terms of desirability) kids. It's the liability and blessing of being hot, depending on your perspective.

Also, the vast, vast majority of girls don't drink enough that they're so drunk that they lose their inhibitions. They're wary about being vulnerable to assault, they have a ton of homework to do each weekend, they're worried about looking stupid on social media, they don't want to gain weight etc.  As a result they pretty much never drink more than a few. Sometimes I feel like my daughter and friends should let lose a little bit.   :roll:   This generation is very different than ours. 
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oops.  "loose", not lose. [/quote]

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