After touring many colleges, my daughter is considering applying ED to Vassar. She loves everything about the college but she has one concern. She has heard that the male gay population is about 40-50%, so she is worried that that will decrease her chances of finding a boyfriend. Is that true?
That percentage is probably an exaggeration! It probably is a stereotype based on the fact that Vassar used to be all female.
My husband has four close male friends from his Vassar days; as it happens, none of the five is gay, and three of them met their wives at Vassar. They’re in their forties, but a young relative in his late twenties graduated from Vassar more recently, and he is straight and so are his closest friends from Vassar, whom we met at his wedding with their wives and girlfriends.
Vassar is a very comfortable place to be LGBTQ, but it is also a very comfortable place to be heterosexual. And look at the male-female ratios for other small liberal arts colleges; many are not all that different from Vassar’s.
So, yes, the male-female ratio is better for heterosexual girls at the very few colleges that skew male: Harvey Mudd and Lafayette spring to mind. But there will be plenty of heterosexual men to choose among at Vassar-- and some of them, like our cousin and, if I dare say so myself, my husband, are quite handsome! (Ha ha.) Vassar is also a school my son is considering, so who knows, he may be added to the count!
Based on what I hear from my son, who’s there now, I think that’s really an exaggeration. I’d be surprised if it was 20%.