<p>I remember reading a thread about colleges that used to be all women that now accept men and therefore may be looking to add men to their population. I can't find it anywhere. I remember Wheaton and Goucher. Anyone have any other suggestions for schools that may be looking to increase their male population???</p>
<p>Wells, Vassar, Sarah Lawrence, Skidmore, Bennington, Manhattanville. To varying degrees. Maybe also Rollins and some of the formerly all-female Catholic schools.</p>
<p>Most co-ed LACs wish to have at least a 60 (female):40 (male) ratio because if they have a higher proportion of females, they risk losing popularity with women who wish to go to a co-ed college. Since more women than men go to college, and most men want to go to colleges with football teams, at most LACs, being male is a big advantage when it comes to admissions.</p>
<p>Randolph-Macon and Hood are two that come to mind.</p>
<p>Also look at Randolph in Va (formerly Randolph -Macon) which is now in its 3rd year of taking men and is looking to gender balance</p>
<p>x-posted with Booklady.</p>
<p>Add University of Mary Washington (VA public LAC), Lewis & Clark, Clark University, University of Maine - Farmington.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if the OP's question was: Which former women's colleges still have a gender imbalance? or At which colleges does being a male confer an admissions advantage?</p>
<p>If it's the former, add Connecticut College to the list.</p>
<p>If it's the latter, all but the most selective LACs and a few others (typically with engineering programs or something similar that attracts males) have to cut a compromise between their desire for gender balance and academic quality because more women apply to LACs than men, and the women do better in HS to begin with.</p>
<p>There's a gender advantage for men at almost any LAC.</p>
<p>^^Except at the women's colleges and purely engineering schools.</p>
<p>Davidson is gender balanced. Is that a sign that they are more lenient with male applicants? Or is the the opposite - they just get a good number of males to begin with?</p>
<p>Vassar pointed out when we visited that their 60/40 ratio is not that far off is not that far off the national average for all colleges (or was it all LACs?) which is according to them 57/53. However I do believe they get that ratio by favoring men somewhat. There's the famous op-ed piece by the admissions director at Kenyon - which isn't even a formerly female school : <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/23/opinion/23britz.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/23/opinion/23britz.html</a>
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Though Kenyon was a men's college until 1969, more than 55 percent of our applicants are female, a proportion that is steadily increasing.
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<p>Second Randolph College. They are actively seeking more males to balance classes.</p>
<p>Look at the common data sets, which break out applications, admissions, and enrollments by gender. At almost every LAC, women apply and enroll at a higher rate than men. That translates into a meaningfully higher admission rate for men. That's true at the top of the food chain (Williams, Amherst), which succeed in getting close to 1-1 enrollments, on down the line. When you get to the HFCUs that are flirting with the 2-1 line (at which point the college starts to look much less attractive to students of both sexes), like Goucher, the ability to pee forward into a urinal while standing up counts for a lot.</p>
<p>wells college in new york. don't know the current ratio, but it switched within the last decade and is an interesting little school</p>
<p>Same is true in the opposite direction for Women applying to Tech schools.</p>
<p>I am looking for schools where my son would have an advantage in admissions. He has good test scores (ACT -30), but only has a 3.067 for a GPA. I was thinking that a school looking to increase their male population might give him a shot based on his tests (and hopefully essay and recs). I'll have to check out some of your suggestions.</p>
<p>Skidmore is another one.</p>
<p>If you go to this website: College</a> Navigator - National Center for Education Statistics, and search each individual college and look under admissions, it gives the acceptance rate by gender. So you'd see that, for example, Skidmore accepted 44.7% of male applicants compared to 35.8% of female applicants.</p>
<p>A little off-topic, but this is one reason why women's colleges can be a great option for female applicants--you won't be penalized for your gender the way you are in the admissions process at many co-ed LACs.</p>
<p>edit: hmmm not sure why that code's appearing on the top of the post, but I can't remove it...</p>
<p>Re: Davidson
From College Navigator, 32.2% male admissions rate, 26.2% female. 2300 female applicants vs. 1780 male.</p>
<p>warriorboy648, you might want to look at Dickinson. I know a boy who was admitted there and his stats were not great. Elon might also be worth a look.</p>
<p>Wow, I will definitely check out the college navigator. I was going to cross Skidmore off our list but maybe we can keep it a s a reach.</p>