Male-Female ratios - reference?

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<p>I'm just curious - is there a source out there where one can EASILY find male-female ratios for specific campuses? </p>

<p>My D has always had close platonic relationships with the opposite sex. At a recent campus visit she noticed immediately that there were not-so-many boys around. It took a little googling to confirm what we observed - a 2:1 ratio of boys to girls. Not enough to disqualify the school, but it did fall a little in her rankings... </p>

<p>Anyway, she's not planning to use the info as a hook for admissions anywhere (since it probably wouldn't work out that way, anyway), and she's not looking for dating prospects, either. (Well okay, she probably IS, but that's only part of it!) Any suggestions?</p>

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<p>Try this website:</p>

<p><a href="http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cool/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cool/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Just type in the name of the specific college. Then click on “Enrollment.” You’ll see some interesting graphs, including one for gender breakdown.</p>

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<p>A 2:1 boy to girl ratio is "not-so-many boys"? Wow, how many boys was she hoping for? 2:1 is already heavily lop-sided toward boys. Only a few very tech-heavy schools, such as Caltech, will have a boy:girl ratio that is even greater than 2:1.</p>

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<p>US News best colleges also provides the male/female ratios...the detailed school descriptions on the non-glossy paper in the back of the mag.</p>

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<p>you have to be careful with those reports, though. My D ended up at a school that has quite a few more girls than boys, but everytime I talk to her she throws out another boys name as a new friend. I commented how lucky she was to be meeting so many boys since they were definitely in the minority, and she said it ends up, her class is actually 'boy-heavy' for her school. They had to make a few adjustments in housing to make room for them.</p>

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<p>ACK! I mistyped, coreur! I MEANT to say the ratio was 2:1 GIRLS: boys! I'm sure she'd be happy with 1:1.</p>

<p>Thanks for the link, worried_mom. That's the kind of info I was looking for.</p>

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<p>Like teriwtt's D, mine also reports many new male friends. The ratio of girls:boys in her school is not super unbalanced, about 1.3 : 1, but in D's group of friends it seems to be around 2 : 7 --a girl from her orientation group that she hit it off with from the start and friends who happen to be males from both of their floors.</p>

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<p>Also, collegeboard.com provides that info in its college profiles.</p>

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<p>My general impression is that most colleges run about 60-40 girls to boys, engineering-heavy schools being the exception. If she finds one even 50-50 she's ahead of the game.</p>

<p>Still, even at 60-40 there's plenty of guys on most campuses - after all, it's not like they all pair off and the extra girls are left standing like a game of musical chairs!</p>

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<p>Scout59,
I have already done this for a number of colleges. The following was taken from the collegeboard.com website. Hope that this helps.</p>

<p>% of women, % of men, college</p>

<p>47% , 53% Princeton
52% , 48% Harvard
50% , 50% Yale
28% , 72% Cal Tech
51% , 49% Stanford
45% , 55% MIT
51% , 49% U Penn
49% , 51% Duke
51% , 49% U Chicago
51% , 49% Dartmouth
52% , 48% Columbia
49% , 51% Wash U StL
48% , 52% Cornell
53% , 47% Northwestern
51% , 49% Brown
49% , 51% J Hopkins
50% , 50% Rice
56% , 44% Emory
53% , 47% Vanderbilt
46% , 54% Notre Dame
54% , 46% UC Berkeley
39% , 61% Carnegie Mellon
55% , 45% Georgetown
52% , 48% U Michigan
57% , 43% U Virginia
59% , 41% UCLA
52% , 48% USC
51% , 49% Tufts
60% , 40% U North Carolina
52% , 48% Wake Forest
54% , 46% Brandeis
52% , 48% W & M
42% , 58% Lehigh
53% , 47% Boston College
62% , 38% NYU
46% , 54% U Rochester
54% , 46% U Wisconsin
56% , 44% UCSD
31% , 69% Georgia Tech
57% , 43% Case Western
49% , 51% U Illinois UC
29% , 71% Rensselaer
53% , 47% U Washington
52% , 48% UC Irvine
48% , 52% Tulane
57% , 43% UC Davis
58% , 42% UC S Barbara
57% , 43% U Florida
47% , 53% Penn State
54% , 46% U Texas</p>

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<p>Here it is for the top LACs:</p>

<p>53% , 47% Williams
51% , 49% Amherst
52% , 48% Swarthmore
100% , 0% Wellesley
51% , 49% Middlebury
54% , 46% Carleton
50% , 50% Pomona
53% , 47% Bowdoin
55% , 45% Haverford
51% , 49% Davidson
49% , 51% Wesleyan
62% , 38% Vassar
45% , 55% CMC
na , na Harvey Mudd
51% , 49% Grinnell
56% , 44% Colgate
49% , 51% W&L
53% , 47% Hamilton
100% , 0% Bryn Mawr
100% , 0% Smith
54% , 46% Colby</p>

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<p>She should consider my school, as it's 8:1 (boys:girls)! Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U.</p>

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<p>Or Caltech :P</p>

<p>Our ratio is actually 5% or so better than that listed I believe... I'm pretty sure that the 28% / 72% was only the class of 2010 (which was lower in girls than most other years). Our class of 2011 is in the high 30s I think (percentage of girls).</p>

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<p>That's still skewed!!</p>

<p>@kwtortoise: Wow! Damn, I feel sorry for all those girls out there!</p>

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<p>Obviously, a lot depends on the area of study that your daughter intends to follow. My D has always developed stronger friendships with guys (all the way back to kindergarten days)....usually more comfortable talking with guys than girls. Although she's at a large state U that's close to 50/50, with her academic focus in astrophysics and computer science, most of her acquaintenances already are guys (I gave her a hard time---her sister showed me her facebook entries (w/ D's permission of course), and 99% of all her "new" college friends are guys! She's estimating 5:1 boys to girls in her heavy-duty classes in her areas of interest.</p>

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Or Caltech :P</p>

<p>Our ratio is actually 5% or so better than that listed I believe... I'm pretty sure that the 28% / 72% was only the class of 2010 (which was lower in girls than most other years). Our class of 2011 is in the high 30s I think (percentage of girls).

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<p>Mudd had a similar scenario. The class of 2010 was 22%/78% for some odd reason. Then admissions went crazy and let a very high amount of girls in for the class of 2011 so that turned out to be 45%/55%. </p>

<p>I think Mudd overall is around 35-40% girls/60-65% guys.</p>

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<p>Also, why aren't there any top all-guy LACs (besides Mudd ;))? How many all-guy LACs are there?</p>

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<p>Completely all-guy? Hampden-Sydney and Wabash. Deep Springs but that's just two years. All are well-respected schools. The Citadel and VMI are really, really skewed . Make Mudd look like Wellesley.</p>

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<p>Again, thanks for the comments. D is interested in business, so I'm guessing this won't skew the ratio one way or another. However, she's crazy about alternative/punk-pop music, which tends to draw a lot of boys (her "type" of boy, too). I'm guessing she'll meet a fair number of them at local concerts, much as she does now....</p>

<p>Astrophysics, she is like your D in one way - her really good friends have always been boys.</p>