<p>Females outnumber males today in the U.S. college population. Some LACs are extremely skewed with females outnumbering males. Some colleges, particularly those with a technical focus, have more men than women. Some consortiums include colleges that are coed, along with colleges that remain exclusively women (Columbia/Barnard, Haverford/Bryn Mawr, Amherst, Hampshire and UMass/Smith and Mt. Holyoke are a few.) Some colleges have equal numbers of men and women. How does attending a college with an unequal or equal number of males and females affect your life as a college student, academically and socially?</p>
<p>my college has like 63% women and out of the 37% of men, about a third are gay…so maybe a quarter of the student body consists of straight guys. It doesn’t affect me academically, because the male/female ratio is about equal in the science dept’s (men here even outnumber women in some majors like phys/math)…but my college is pretty artsy in general so maybe that’s why it attacts more women? </p>
<p>it leaves women on campus with a hungry, desperate look in their eyes :P</p>
<p>Odds are good, but the goods are odd!</p>
<p>^ Agreed. My school is roughly equal (but it’s huuuge, we have 40k students) but my department is incredibly male-skewed. Something like 95% male/ 5% female. Makes life interesting.</p>
<p>I think my school is like 49/51 in favor of women, but for engineering, it’s closer to 80/20; it’s very noticeable in those classes. Sadly, not that many are attractive, so it doesn’t mean much. And academically, I couldn’t care less who’s in my classes/groups/etc.</p>
<p>My school is about 2/3 women and 1/3 men. It’s hard as a girl to find a guy who is a) single and b) not a jerk. But honestly, other than finding someone to be with, the ratio doesn’t really have much of an effect on life. Classes generally have no more than 3 or 4 guys so if they’re discussion based you don’t get as much of a guy’s perspective. But I have a lot of guy friends and I hang out with them a lot and stuff.</p>
<p>I go to Georgia Tech, which is the exact opposite of the schools Alix2012 and SingDanceRunLife described. In fact, for me, “It’s hard as a [guy] to find a [girl] who is a) single and b) not a [expletive].” Of the last two girls I tried to get together with, the first was already taken and the second politely made it clear that she wasn’t interested in me. (I sent her an e-mail on Friday, and she replied six days later, claiming that she hadn’t checked her e-mail for a week. At Tech, that does not happen, regardless of what your major is. [I later found out that she is quite manipulative, so I guess I’m glad that one didn’t work out.])</p>
<p>Contrary to popular belief, Georgia Tech actually does have some very beautiful and/or very sexy women. They’re generally taken at any time; it’s like arbitrage in finance - by the time an opening occurs, someone else has already closed it. Of course, one day, you might be that “someone else”…anyway, this isn’t the problem. The problem occurs when you try to pursue good-looking women, that is, 7-8 out of 10 as opposed to 9-11 out of 10. (I once met a true 11 in one of my classes whom I firmly believe is beautiful and elegant enough to be a runway model. That was only once, though.) Due to scarcity, girls who elsewhere would be 7s or 8s start thinking that they’re 9s or 10s, and so they start acting like they’re 9s or 10s. This even extends to girls who are 5-6 out of 10; they think and act like they’re 7s or 8s.</p>
<p>After reading The Game at the suggestion of a friend, I realized that there’s actually a solution to this problem: use the “neg.” It’s always cautioned that “negs” are meant only for women who are 9s or 10s; women who know they are absolutely beautiful and are not afraid to capitalize on that. However, it’s also said that “negs” can be used in environments where girls think they are 9s or 10s. The traditional example is a strip club. It took me a while to realize that Georgia Tech is actually an environment that is conducive to “negs.”</p>
<p>I still have a lot of room for improvement with respect to my pick-up skills, but to date, I have never gotten a negative reaction after using a “neg.” I’ve always gotten smiles after using them.</p>
<p>So to answer OP’s question, the “ratio” does not affect my life academically in the slightest. It does affect my social life with respect to the ladies, because I have to account for the fact that due to scarcity, women at Tech have adjusted their behavior to fit the environment. It only makes sense that I adjust mine in response to that.</p>
<p>The ratio at my school is almost 50/50, 53% male and 47% female. In some departments, you’ll notice that there are more men than women (like Engineering and even Business), but in other fields, it is more or less equal.</p>
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haha that can go both ways</p>
<p>“my college has like 63% women and out of the 37% of men, about a third are gay…so maybe a quarter of the student body consists of straight guys.”</p>
<p>!?!?!?!</p>
<p>A third of the guys at your school are gay? What kind of school is that?</p>
<p>Apparently my school actually has more guys than girls (but it’s very close, something like 50.5/49.5), but in Engineering it’s 77% male 23% female.</p>
<p>Would anyone choose or not choose a college based on the ratio? Knowing what you know now?</p>
<p>To be honest when I was looking at schools (2 years ago) I made sure not to choose any colleges that had an extremely skewed female/male ratio (55/45 was okay, but anything like 65/35 or worse put a college out-of-consideration). I just figure, although it is not that big a deal, it might make life just a little bit harder. Plus as a girl I find I tend to have more in common with guys than girls (and I don’t think I could handle an exlusively-or-mostly-girl environment).</p>
<p>From most of my experiences talking with people girls seem to care about more about the ratio than guys do.</p>
<p>^ The kind of guys attracted to schools with high M:F ratios (Cal Tech, RPI, Harvey Mudd) don’t usually place meeting girls high on their priority list to begin with.</p>
<p>It’s kind of lame. For example, I was in a lecture hall once and out of the 50 students in the room 24 were female, 3 were xixikls, and 23 were men. This bothered me so much that I failed out of my classes, joined a gang (“The National Orgnization of Men Against Amazonian Masterhood”, also known as N.O. M.A.A.M.), became a shoe salesman, and drank myself to death out of despair.</p>
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<p>To Fabrizio: So if you don’t have to “neg” them, then what would you do ? Just start hitting/flirting with them? </p>
<p>To the OP: In all honesty, male/female ratio shouldn’t affect you’re college life. I go to a big public school, so there are hot females everywhere I look. yay!</p>
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<p>Basically. You use the “neg” because if you just start “hitting/flirting” with them, most girls will brush you off immediately. Example: A friend invited me to lunch at a local restaurant with a student organization. Apparently, it was a well-planned event as there were other branches of that student organization from different schools there. There was a pretty good-looking girl sitting next to us and another guy. She was from Tech, and she was reading a book before her order arrived. The other guy smiled and told her, “Looks like an interesting book you’re reading.” He was obviously trying to open a conversation with her, and honestly, it’d probably work almost everywhere else. This is Tech, though, so she didn’t even look at him when she replied; she just said in a very disinterested tone, “Yeah.” I saw what happened, so I tried a “neg.” I told her, “You’re the only one of us who’s representing our school; you brought a book to lunch.” This time, she looked at me and gave me a smile.</p>
<p>At Tech, there’s the so-called TBS: Tech [expletive] Syndrome. After I read The Game, I realized that there’s nothing abnormal about TBS. In such an environment, you ought to expect that. The ratio between men and women is around 2:1 (67/33), and any girl who is above-average in looks is going to get on hit on frequently. My all-time favorite LOL example happened last semester. I was going to the bathroom, and I saw two guys talking to one girl. Not more than ninety seconds later, I came out of the bathroom, and two guys turned into five guys. That’s Tech. Being rational players, women respond accordingly. It only makes sense that guys should adjust, too.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, but which Tech are you talking about?</p>
<p>I go to Georgia Tech.</p>
<p>^ HAHAH Fabrizio</p>
<p>I actually read a portion of the book the Game, and I’m surprised at how people react to the so called, “negs”. </p>
<p>I’m at school in So. Cali and I can say there are hot girls everywhere and the EXACT opp. of what you said is true. Here girls don’t think they are pretty, even the ones that I would described as hot/gorgeous/stunning/pretty/etc. I complimented my friends before on being pretty/good looking and their reactions were along the lines of, “Oh, you really think so?”–it was as if they never been compliment on their lives, kinda sad, that they lack self esteem, but that’s life. =/</p>