<p>My D was accepted to AU and is very strongly considering it. I know that the male to female ratio is bothering her. Can any current students advise how that works? Is there a lot of competition between females due the severely unbalanced ratio? Is there a decent opportunity to meet guys at GW or other DC colleges? Or, do a lot of the female students at AU go dateless/ boyfriendless a lot of the time? Thanks for your feedback.</p>
<p>My daughter does have a boyfriend that she met at AU. Most schools, unless they are engineering schools, have more females than males. Just a fact of the current college makeup.</p>
<p>I can’t answer the second part, but in a presentation, we were told the ratio was high50s females to low 40s male. Don’t remember the exact figures, but it was along those lines.</p>
<p>Much different from when I was in college!</p>
<p>I am really considering going but my only question is does anyone know, or can provide me with a rough estimate of how many Asian Indians attend American University at the UNDERGRAD LEVEL?</p>
<p>mdee94 - call admissions, if they have that info they will share it.</p>
<p>My son is a junior at AU and he said he doesn’t really notice the skewed ratio as he originally thought he would. There is some dating/pairing off but a lot of social life is more mixed groups…a lot of students are future-focused and are not necessarily looking to get into serious relationships at this early point in their lives.</p>
<p>In response to the male:female ratio and how many “Asian Indians” there are… I honestly don’t think these small things should sway your decision to come to American University by much. Admittedly, the male:female thing may be more concerning considering the fact that in most classes and campus-wide females trump males… but obviously there are so many other ways to get around this. I would hope that this would be just common sense and that these factors don’t change your opinions. Also, AU has to be one of the more international/third culture kid/global nomad type of schools in DC. I wouldn’t even worry about that. I’m Asian if that makes any difference.</p>
<p>Oops - I was confused by your comment mdee94. When you said “Asian Indians” I didn’t think you meant Indian Americans… Well you’re still going to get a REALLY low percentage of Indian Americans from ANY college you attend in the US so… I don’t see the point of that percentage helping you out in any way.</p>
<p>I go to AU, and to be truthful, odds are poor for single women.</p>
<p>The ratio is roughly 60-40 female-male, but that’s not considering that there is a significant gay male population.</p>
<p>That’s not to say that it’s cut-throat competition, however, because many women have a strong independent personality and “don’t need no man” which brings odds slightly back into other single women’s favor because they can be considered removed from the pool.</p>
<p>It’s possible to meet Georgetown / GW kids (the two schools AU kids are most likely to interact with), but odds are slim unless she goes to parties / clubs where she will meet them or goes to those campuses (which is not unlikely as your daughter may take a class through the DC Schools Consortium).</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Thanks, your reply was helpful!</p>
<p>Looks like the ratio just took another hit:</p>
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