Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt, but I dont if you can parse out by department.

But I think if any college is underweight with men, it's very underweight w men in humanities. Esp true if there's a CS or Engineering program of note in the school which is helping shore up numbers.

I guess I don’t follow this logic. Those schools with CS and Engineeering of note have a greater percentage of men overall to begin with. Schools want 1) a relatively equal gender balance at the school overall and 2) to lessen gender disproportion of majors. (The former is actually more important to schools.) A humanities kid at a school that does not have lots of engineering/CS ticks both of these boxes. The kid at a school you describe ticks only one.

you should look at the CDS - there are a lot more girls full stop.

My guess would be that all the LACs who "need boys" are getting a lot of them from recruited athletes so in effect when your son applies there he is competing for the slots that are "left over" after they early-admit all their athletes.

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Anonymous wrote:ED to a liberal arts college

if you're only looking at gaming, this is not really the play. schools with heavy CS and engineering are missing boys in humanities. CMU, CWRU .. all good for boys in humanities.

This is what I recommend in general for a male in humanities. Not just gaming bc the student has to actually attend.

well sure. dont' apply to just game it. but I know plenty of boys in humanities who don't a SLAC. they want big and sporty - or California - or economically diverse - or whatever!

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Anonymous wrote:ED to a liberal arts college

if you're only looking at gaming, this is not really the play. schools with heavy CS and engineering are missing boys in humanities. CMU, CWRU .. all good for boys in humanities.

This is what I recommend in general for a male in humanities. Not just gaming bc the student has to actually attend.

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Anonymous wrote:Liberal arts colleges tend to attract more females than males, therefore, a male should have a slight advantage regarding admissions.

Other than LACs, maybe William & Mary (which is a National University).

UNC-Chapel Hill has an imbalance as well.

Anonymous wrote:Liberal arts colleges tend to attract more females than males, therefore, a male should have a slight advantage regarding admissions.

Other than LACs, maybe William & Mary (which is a National University).

CDS is helpful because there are plenty of schools like USC with far greater female applicants, but they accept far more too. So no bump. Schools have widely different approaches to balancing by gender, or not.

Anonymous wrote:ED to a liberal arts college

if you're only looking at gaming, this is not really the play. schools with heavy CS and engineering are missing boys in humanities. CMU, CWRU .. all good for boys in humanities.

ED to a liberal arts college

Liberal arts colleges tend to attract more females than males, therefore, a male should have a slight advantage regarding admissions.

Vassar and Wes

Vanderbilt, but I dont if you can parse out by department.

But I think if any college is underweight with men, it's very underweight w men in humanities. Esp true if there's a CS or Engineering program of note in the school which is helping shore up numbers.

I don’t know of specific stats to support that for humanities applicants specifically but the CW would be nearly all as boys are underrepresented as humanities applicants. Now for male applicants generally, look at the CDS at Brown, Yale, Vassar, Wesleyan. Those are four off the top of my head. I think it may have fallen below 40, but also W&M.

I've been reading about lack of guys applying to college, which seems more pronounced at some schools than others. I'm insane so I'll probably go through every single CDS eventually, does off the top of your head: does anyone know what top 40 colleges favor boys in humanities? Wondering if there may be some schools that could move from "reach" to "target" based on this.