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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-university-fall-higher-education-men-women-enrollment-admissions-back-to-school-11630948233

Men are abandoning higher education in such numbers that they now trail female college students by record levels.

At the close of the 2020-21 academic year, women made up 59.5% of college students, an all-time high, and men 40.5%, according to enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse, a nonprofit research group. U.S. colleges and universities had 1.5 million fewer students compared with five years ago, and men accounted for 71% of the decline.

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The proportion of male undergraduates at UCLA fell to 41% in the fall semester of 2020 from 45% in fall 2013. Over the same period, undergraduate enrollment expanded by nearly 3,000 students. Of those spots, nine out of 10 went to women.

“We do not see male applicants being less competitive than female applicants,” UCLA Vice Provost Youlonda Copeland-Morgan said, but fewer men appl

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Huge article, must read, can’t fully copy and paste due to Jeff.

I always knew women were out enrolling men overall, but before a lot of that was driven at shit tier schools. I was shocked to see the UCLA number.

Usually tier 1 schools have good gender balance.

Even Berkeley is 54/46 women. And penn is 52/48 women.

Even sons of higher earning families fall behind their sisters

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The observation about the gender gap decreases as you move up in college rankings is key point. Men are earning fewer degrees overall, but the ones who do are earning them from higher ranked schools.

I’ve come to accept that society is geared toward stratifying men’s status more aggressively than women’s. Women are herded toward the middle of the bell curve while men are herded away from the middle and toward the extremes. [/quote]

It’s better to have an average/median daughter than an average son.

If you are going to have a son you better make sure he is in the top 10% of society otherwise he will have a hard time this century.[/quote]

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