<p>College of Charleston is 62/38 F/M, and it was a factor, although not the most important one, when DD turned them down.</p>
<p>My older son applied to and was accepted at RPI and Georgia Tech, aware of the ratios. He now attends RPI. My younger son has no interest in an inbalanced male to female ratio. I know a couple of guys who attend College of Charleston, and they love it.</p>
<p>The female-male enrollment ratio of many individual colleges should be viewed in the context of overall female-male undergraduate enrollment. Overall, according to the National Center for Educational Statistics, 56% of undergraduates are female. This number is projected to rise to close to 60 percent by the end of the decade. So many schools’ enrollment ratios are simply consistent with overall enrollment stats. (Incidentally, 61% of masters degrees and 51% of doctorates currently go to women.) </p>
<p>Assuming that the 56% undergraduate enrollment number is comparable to the percentage of female applicants, this means that a school that has a 50-50 enrollment ratio is probably discriminating against women.</p>
<p>I think it is faulty to apply the overall number to individual schools - there are a bunch of women only schools that must influence the overall total.</p>
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So, um, did their wear sexual preference badges or something?</p>
<p>Is romance really a game of musical chairs? I’m curious as to the percentage of undergraduates who find " the one" before graduation. I know several very attractive women engineers who are still single long after graduation because they don’t want to marry another engineer and they work such long hours they don’t have time to meet anyone else. I think matchmaking websites are going to be increasingly important to the next generation.</p>
<p>And lol @madaboutx</p>
<p>My rising senior daughter goes to a tech test-in high school that’s about 60-40 boys-girls. We’ve both noted that the girl dramarama scene is much less there than at another school she auditioned for, a performing-arts school that’s at least 70-30 girls-boys. She definitely doesn’t want to go to a college that’s more than 60 percent female and would prefer less, although that rules out a lot of liberal arts colleges.</p>
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<p>Momzie, my D attends one of those artsy crunchy LACs (f/m ratio about 55/45). She says that every straight guy who wants a girl has multiple options. They don’t seem to mind. 
D’s boyfriend is pretty cute, so she made her claim early on and has managed to hang onto him.</p>
<p>BTW, there are quite a few LGBTs on campus, and D has been approached several times by girls. She says she considered it a compliment.</p>
<p>“So, um, did their wear sexual preference badges or something?” No, they were very up front about it. First one was responding to a question (by a parent, not a student) about gender ratio’s. The other was responding to a question about LGBTQ tolerance on campus. Both said they were straight and very happy on campus.</p>
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<p>Engineering-focused schools tend to be like that:</p>
<p>Colorado Mines: 74% male
Illinois Tech: 69% male
Michigan Tech: 75% male
Missouri U of S&T: 77% male
New Mexico Tech: 67% male
PINYU: 79% male
Rensselaer: 71% male
Rose-Hulman: 79% male
South Dakota Mines: 74% male
Worchester Polytechnic: 69% male</p>
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<p>The super-selective schools likely get far more academically well qualified applicants than can fill their frosh classes (both male and female) that they can more easily manipulate their gender ratio at the admissions office than less selective schools.</p>
<p>One of my kids recently attended Bennington. On campus, whether walking around or in dining halls or in dorms, there seemed to be plenty of guys around. You certainly wouldn’t notice an imbalance of any kind, and of course some guys are gay, most aren’t.</p>
<p>I am concerned a little about your calling your son “artsy fartsy”, the schools as “crunchy” and your apparent fear of the presence of gay men. Not sure what is really behind this question, but it seems to be about more than just gender ratios.</p>
<p>^^My kids use the term “hipster school”–as in “I don’t want to a hipster school like Bard.”</p>
<p>WPI’s ratio improves a little each year, the overall % is 31%, but the class that just started is 33% female :)<br>
They are trying really hard to attract more females…</p>
<p>Purdue was 98% male I think :-)</p>
<p>Actually for larger non engineering or non-LAC schools look for specific department etc numbers, I am still amazed about low CS female student ratios…</p>
<p>My HS D is the only girl in a hands-on technology class. This is not a huge surprise, but it is a bit sad. I remember being the only one in CS classes in college.</p>
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<p>I hope so! My D15 will be available to a good engineering school in two years.</p>
<p>We could get into a discussion about whether some colleges discriminate in their admissions to try to keep their gender ratios less skewed. There certainly have been allegations over the years, particularly that some liberal arts colleges were being easier in admissions of male students in order to avoid becoming 60-40 female. Those colleges were also fearful that their male sports programs would suffer if they became too female.</p>
<p>Actually, many of the LACs were concerned that a significant number of highly coveted women applicants would not apply if the female/male ratio was too high.</p>
<p>My youngest son just graduated from American University, a school with an unexplainable lopsided ratio.</p>
<p>He never noticed a dearth of males for friends. He belonged to a fraternity and had friends on the swim, soccer and basketball teams. (Of course, at AU students are on teams because they like the sport and want to participate–they are not at all emphasized. I was impressed by the fact that his athlete friends all seemed to also pull high GPAs and work valuable internships as well.)</p>
<p>Maybe Kogod has a higher percentage of males than some of the other programs?</p>
<p>Snowme - check out this page on WPI’s admission site [Undergraduate</a> Admissions: Women - WPI](<a href=“http://www.wpi.edu/admissions/undergraduate/perspective/women.html]Undergraduate”>http://www.wpi.edu/admissions/undergraduate/perspective/women.html)</p>