<p>I know that Tulane has more females than males, I thought it was about about 55-60% female. But on the Tulane 2015 Facebook group, it looks more like 90% female! Is it just that guys don't go on Facebook as much or what? My daughter definitely plans to attend but the ratio is not looking very good!</p>
<p>You are correct on both counts. I believe Tulane is about 60% female. And it is also true that women use FB much more than men. My d is a freshman and does not feel any gender disparity on campus. However, her floor on Monroe was supposed to be co-ed but due to the uneven ratio, it is all female. Turns out, that is a good thing–less wild. She is very happy with the arrangement and loves the school.</p>
<p>This is a nationwide phenomenon, btw. Of course individual schools might show a ratio closer to 50-50, but overall it is something like 58% of the graduating high school seniors that go to college are female. So Tulane pretty much just represents the national trend in this regard.</p>
<p>It is true that the college population slants more towards 60/40 females to males. I think schools that are closer to 50/50 manage this number, but in general, 60/40 is more commonly the trend at most schools for at least the last 4-5 years. When my D, currently a college junior was looking at schools, we were very surprised to see this. Since she went to an all girls high school, it was a stat she was interested in as she applied to colleges. My high school senior and probable future Tulanian is male, so he thinks the trend is great! Personally, I would like to see a more balanced student body too.</p>
<p>Thanks, everyone. Is it that there are more girls or just that girls are smarter and more go to college, LOL!</p>
<p>Kreativecat - you need to do your part to improve the ratio and convince your son to attend Tulane.</p>
<p>if the parents were not tending to most of the boys deadlines, the ratio would be even higher. lol. many boys are not mature enough to get it together.</p>
<p>Hey now! LOL, true, but still.</p>
<p>To answer the question about if it is demographics or “smarts”, it is not demographics. Apparently there are slightly more boys than girls at birth and up to 15 years old. The ratio declines a little from the birth rates because infant mortality is higher among male babies at a 6.8/5.4 ratio. Then it declines at the 15-64 end to about 1:1 because of a number of factors, but I strongly suspect that if it is 1.04 in the 0-15 range, then it is probably about that at 18 years old.</p>
<p>at birth: 1.047 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.75 male(s)/female
total population: 0.97 male(s)/female (2010 est.)</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html[/url]”>https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html</a></p>
<p>So clearly what has happened is that the changing social norms over the last decades that have girls being treated more equally in the classroom and going on to careers has led to massive increases in women going to college, and although I (fake) protested smile’s last comment, there is no question that a lot of males don’t do as well in school and drop out, decide on the military, decide on jobs that don’t require college, and/or end up incarcerated at far higher rates than women.</p>
<p>Didn’t mean to get all serious, but that is pretty much why we see 60/40 female in colleges despite about a 51-49 teenage male advantage numerically in the population.</p>
<p>@mumof2: I am doing my best 
but Tulane could help by accepting some of the very bright, qualified, and I might add good-looking, friends of his that have been deferred with 33 ACT’s, and very high GPA’s! It has me scratching my head for sure! You would think they would want to snatch up these very bright males to help attract the very bright females as well! LOL</p>
<p>My son and I visited in October. During the info session they mentioned that last year the female to male ratio was definitely off. The said that they accepted 65% female and 35% male. They attributed this ratio being slanted to the fact that Tulane is a very community service oriented school and females tend to do more service than males, hence more were accepted. They also mentioned that it was a mistake and that they should have been a little bit more conscience of the gender ratio. They said they are trying to make sure it will not occur again this coming year.</p>
<p>So that explains it! My DD, who is a tulane freshman, insisted the disparity was greater than average for her class. She is not happy about it at all! LOL</p>
<p>^^Hi. I’m also the mom of a boy who loves Tulane and was accepted EA. I’m a little bemused to think that being a male in America could ever be considered desirable underrepresented status.</p>
<p>My S who is a freshman, has more female friends than he knows what to do with but has complained that he doesn’t have very many male friends.</p>
<p>mom222 - I hope he doesn’t complain to his male friends from high school about this! I don’t think he would get much sympathy. LOL.</p>
<p>I heard the stats for this year’s freshman class (of which my daughter is a member of) is 63% female. D is not happy about that stat!</p>
<p>Yes, it was either 62 or 63%. Hopefully it will come more into balance, but again it just is not too far out of line with the national percentage.</p>
<p>Looking on the bright side - those of us with junior sons can hope that Tulane looks for a balance for the class of 2016:)</p>
<p>We are visiting this weekend - can’t wait! Our schedules didn’t allow for a weekday tour of the school so we are hoping to get a feel for the student body in the afternoon - when they all wake-up!</p>
<p>my son was just accepted. there is one more boy</p>