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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll add one point that I haven’t seen here yet: travel sports. Many boys I know (even as young as 7) are funneled into playing hardcore travel sports (usually baseball, basketball, soccer, or lacrosse). As a result, they have practices every night (so they have less time to do homework) and miss some school because of tournaments. This also perpetuates the idea of “Why should I care about school? I’m going to be a professional athlete!”

Of course we also see this in girls, but at a much lower rate. [/quote]

I don’t know what world you live in- but I was playing travel soccer decades and it was national travel and multiple weeknight club practices, mixed with HS team too.

The girls travel basketball and soccer and volleyball has a schedule almost identical to the boys. Those is gymnastics and swimming have crazy schedules as well [/quote]

DP. I was a club soccer player in the 80s. It certainly existed, but was nowhere near as popular as today. At my private I was the only one in my class doing it; at the same school now it seems like half the class does some club sport.

The girl club athletes might be more realistic about their career opportunities, and that might work to their advantage. I think even the boy club athletes I know who got recruited would’ve benefitted from more time on schoolwork.

I don’t think over-investing time in club/travel sports is a top 2 or 3 driver of the trend towards fewer male college students. It might be a minor contributing factor.

Cost of attendance has outpaced inflation, and some families are now less comfortable telling their daughters to go directly into the work force than their sons.

Also test scores are far less likely to make the difference in a college admit decision. Heck the University of California is still blind. The clever but underachieving boy who was told decade ago “you are probably bored in high school but your scores show colleges your potential” is now a bit more likely to hear stories of young men who manage without college.

Also, the many single gender outreach programs to develop career interests in girls have actually worked. [/quote]

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