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[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]

From my daughter's experience, she and her friend group aren't particularly focused on dating.  They have female and male friends, and are much more focused on academics and extracurricular activities than having a boyfriend.  She has a great group of female friends and in visiting I've heard their concerns on a wide range of topics -- but not finding a boyfriend hasn't popped up at all.    [/quote]

Colleges all have very active hook-up cultures (and no, mom, you won’t hear all about it), but far less dating / relationships than in years past.

Just how it is now.[/quote]

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