<p>I'm trying to decide on a school, but the one I like best as far as academics (that also offered the biggest grant) has a 3:1 girl-guy ratio. As a girl, this is kind of intimidating. How important do you think the ratio is, considering that college is supposed to be social as well as academic?</p>
<p>The more the females the better
I get along with the female folk more than the male folk</p>
<p>The more the females the better
I get along with the female folk more than the male folk</p>
<p>I get along better with guys. I’m worried that I’ll end up hanging out with mostly girls because there are so many of them, and that it’ll be harder to get a date. But I don’t know if that’s enough to choose a different school, given how much I like the other aspects of that school.</p>
<p>I have chosen to attend a women’s college. It was mainly an academic and financial decision without much attention to social life. But I am glad I am here and I wouldn’t trade the experience for anything in the world!</p>
<p>In high school most of my friends were male, but that might have been because there were a lot more geeky guys than girls. I wasn’t sure what to expect of a lack of guys before college started but it turned out to be a non-issue. The absence of guys is hardly noticeable because the group of girls is so diverse that all personalities are well-represented. Maybe it is worth mentioning that most students at my college don’t have a date and many of those looking for an active social life are miserable. The majority of us are more interested in best friends than dates and we are having a great time :)</p>
<p>If dating is a major concern though, I suggest you look at colleges with a more even gender distribution (possibly even college with 60+% male students).</p>
<p>My home university has like 55% guys… ugh.</p>
<p>My university abroad has mostly females… I’m the only guy in this one class with 10 other girls, most of them hot.</p>
<p>A lot of them have this look in their eyes like they just want to suck something… haha. Wait, what was your question? Who wants to go to college at a sausagefest? Gross</p>
<p>I sort of had the opposite outlook from the OP…</p>
<p>I stopped considering a college because of the huge guy-to-girl ratio (between 4:1 and 2:1 depending on how you thought of it), and although some people have asked “wouldn’t you liked to have guys chasing after you?”, that idea never really crossed my mind that much and I was just more intimidated by how much of a minority I’d be. Same idea probably partly accounts for why some careers are mostly one gender.</p>
<p>my school has (i think) a 60/40 ratio of girls/guys, but i never notice it at parties or when i’m going out. i’ve never had a problem with “finding a date” because of it, and most of my girlfriends agree with me (we actually had this conversation the other night haha). the only time I really notice the imbalance is in class.</p>
<p>There’s a huge difference between a 60/40 and a 75/25 ratio. You are looking at 1.5 vs 3 girls per guy.</p>
<p>The Bi-Co (Bryn Mawr/Haverford) has 3-4 girls per guy, which is pretty close to the situation the OP described. The gender ratio is pretty obvious at parties and there’s a fair number of frustrated girls…</p>
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well it’s great you like it, but I think this is what turns people off to women’s colleges - they think the girls there are either asexual nerds or lesbo’s (total stereotype, I know). It’s not Bryn Mawr, is it? my friend’s going there next year and it’s weird to think no one has an active social life because she’s so outgoing.</p>
<p>It is Bryn Mawr. I didn’t say no one had an active social life. A fair number of people do, but they have to go out of their way to have fun. Like, arrange transportation into Philly (no trains at night) or take the f_ck truck to Swat (but it only seats 7 people), etc. There are close to no parties on campus.</p>
<p>Just go there. You’re there for the education. Think trade school kids got to pick out their favorite based on gender statistics? You can’t even judge at this point because the mostly women college might have tons of guys you like and the lesser women colleges might have none.</p>