Anonymous wrote:Both of my kids want a school with a balanced gender ratio, or as close as possible. Not interested in any of these 60/40 places.

Anonymous wrote:Bring back recess. That helps boys a lot with socialization and gives them an outlet for excess energy. Boys did fine with college admissions until No Child Left Behind destroyed the natural development for boys.

Anonymous wrote:At the LACs I toured, majority of non-recruited athlete men were gay according to male tour guide (who was also gay). My daughter doesn't want to date only athletes, although many of them are queer now too.

Anonymous wrote:In Singapore, the government deliberately combined some male-dominated degree programs with some female-dominated degree programs at one of the universities to try to balance the genders somewhat. It mostly works, too.

Small LACs are fine for pre-med/pre-law, but often do not offer engineering and that pushes the gender ratios towards women.

By the same token, smaller colleges that are narrowly STEM-focused (especially engineering focused) such as RIT, RPI, WPI, or Olin have the opposite issue - gender ratio biased towards men.

Given the high and sustained demand for undergraduate engineering programs, maybe some LACs should open engineering programs.

Anonymous wrote:At the LACs I toured, majority of non-recruited athlete men were gay according to male tour guide (who was also gay). My daughter doesn't want to date only athletes, although many of them are queer now too.

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Anonymous wrote:It gets worse when you think about how so many of the men are gay. So red blooded American males make up probably 20-30% of the population at any given college

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sorry such a weird way to say "straight." Are you allwhite?

Anonymous wrote:It gets worse when you think about how so many of the men are gay. So red blooded American males make up probably 20-30% of the population at any given college

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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?

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.

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Anonymous wrote:They really need to balance for gender! Women want gender balance too.

But DEI!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Auburn… for the win!

50:50

Amen. Hot girls. Hot guys. Plenty of accomplished and privileged people from old Southern families. The kind of thing you want to marry into.

Not everything in life should be a struggle session. Sometimes you want to be in a position to skim the cream from the top. College is one of those times.

Anonymous wrote:Part of the problem is that so many guys are all applying for the same programs -- i.e., business and engineering. So it's hard for colleges to balance their classes because they need/want students in all schools/departments. That's why it doesn't always help to be a male applicant at a gender imbalanced school. A guy applying to Georgetown who wants to be a business major isn't going to get a bump. If he wants to study English, however, that's a different story.

Anonymous wrote:They really need to balance for gender! Women want gender balance too.

Anonymous wrote:My high stats son can't wait for college, for this very reason, among others. Like shooting fish in a barrel.

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Anonymous wrote:Go to an ivy or similar, they are all close to 50-50.

And they also have a high percentage of LGBTQ students. If your child is waiting to date and straight- there will not be a robust dating pool at T10 schools.