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Here’s yet another issue for high school seniors — particularly girls — to factor into their college choices: the ratio of women to men on a particular campus. My colleague Alex Williams reports in the Sunday Styles section of The Times that finding a boyfriend is a challenge for women at many colleges, where they outnumber men by a wide margin.Women have represented about 57 percent of enrollments at American colleges since at least 2000, according to a recent report by the American Council on Education. Researchers there cite several reasons: women tend to have higher grades; men tend to drop out in disproportionate numbers; and female enrollment skews higher among older students, low-income students, and black and Hispanic students.


NY Times
Feb 10 2010