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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA was not our backup, but we did pick William and Mary over UVA.[/quote]

smart decision, it's a private ivy-like education for a public school price.[/quote]

The sad thing about William & Mary is its free fall in the rankings.  It's not even a Top 50 school anymore.[/quote]

W&M might as well be an all female school at this point.[/quote]

W&M is 41%/59% M/F.  UVA is 43%/57% M/F.  National is about 40%/60 M/F.[/quote]

Where the heck are the boys!?[/quote]

Wherever they are, probably not studying.[/quote]

Why would you say that?  How bizarre.
DP[/quote]

I think because there are now 3 women for every 2 men at college.  [/quote]

Why wouldn’t they admit more men by a huge margin to try and get the balance correct? It creates a weird hook up culture in college.[/quote]

There are simply many more qualified and applying women in the U.S. than men now.  60/40 nationally.   [/quote]

The past 20 years of 'bring your daughter to work', girls on the run, girls in STEM and every other conceivable program aimed solely at the girls, combined with the feminization of the American education system has promoted women and we see that result.  Laura Bush saw the boys falling behind and aimed reading groups at them--but pretty much fell on deaf ears.  The boys fell behind as the girls rose.

However, in upper socioeconomic groups you do not see this disparity. The boys of UMC/rich do just as well in school.  They had parents looking out for them.  Poor boys and boys of lower MC were just labeled as problems in K and treated differently.[/quote]

It is going to be a real problem in coming years, decades when women are looking for a comparable mate to raise a family.  It's like in Indian/China when they got rid of the females and then realized there aren't any 'mates' for the men.[/quote]

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