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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel bad for my DD who is a strong candidate for top 75 and wants to be in an intellectually stimulating enviro with lots of impressive straight men who are equally strong to date. What kinds of outreach should the top 75 schools be doing with strong male candidates to make their ratios closer to 50-50 or even 55-45 (and not 60-40 or 65-35 or worse)?

Our straight daughters deserve better than recruited squash players and recruited lax bros who barely passed their academic pre-reads.

What about open houses run by male AOs with video-game themes? More profiles of outstanding male students on brochures (my DD's college brochures she gets in the mail feature majority women)? Webinar or student panels which are at least 50-50 women-men. I was at panels at BU, Pomona, USC and Tufts where the [b]student panels were all female and the tour guides were all women except for one lonely male.[/b] That doesn't give a reassuring signal to prospective male students so I can understand why they go elsewhere.

Additional ED3 round with later deadline for males (since they are slower to develop)?[/quote]

The boys need to sign up for this stuff and get out of bed on Saturday morning. Again, it’s not that they’re being rejected from these panels, they don’t want to participate in the first place.[/quote]

We toured BC recently. They also had an all female student panel, which was pointed out by my son. They were all lovely and very impressive. But it is hard for a 17 year old boy to picture day to day social life at a school when the woman are talking about their experience on the dance team, shopping on Newbury Street on the weekends and getting boba with friends. [/quote]

Our panel at BC was very similar. My DS scratched it off his list.[/quote]

Agree.

Sons had similar experiences at other schools
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Honestly, most of the tours aren't very good if you are an average boy.  My boys are back to back, class of 2025 and class of 2026.  We went on probably 15 tours over the last few years.  We toured big schools and small schools but mostly big schools.  Most of them had tour guides that they couldn't identify with.  The one tour that was a home run was Furman.  Boy 2 loved it because of the two tour guides.   Both male, one white and one black.  Regular kids.  
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