<p>I apologize in advance if I offend anyone with my following comments. It is not my intention. I am a very open-minded individual. Now that I’m in, I’ve been thinking about the odds of meeting a mate at Penn. I’m a white Christian male seeking same in mate. Penn has 9800 students, 42% are white. Of those 3000 are Jewish. 52% of the remaining are female; one fourth are incoming freshman. So 9800<em>.42 = 4116; 4116-3000 = 1116; 1116 .52 = 580; 580/4 = 145. 145 potentials. Would I have had the same chance at a small college? Say 5000 students, 80% white Christian. 55% female. 5000</em>.8 = 4000;4000.55 = 2200; 2200/4 =550. 550 potentials. Am I going to have trouble getting a date?</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>Instead, you will meet many kinds of people and discover a lot about yourself. </p>
<p>Then, if you still want to meet a white, Christian male, you will. You have lots of life ahead of you. Don’t count on meeting a mate when you’re 18.</p>
<p>Besides, maybe you’ll meet an upperclassman. That’s 145 X 4 possibilities!</p>
<p>hahhaha. i think OP wants to meet a white, Christian female…</p>
<p>anyways. philadelphia is home of many colleges and student groups. if you don’t find whom you are seeking, you can always try drexel…</p>
<p>pennboy: I’d like to double check your math. Could you please provide a link to where you’re getting your data? Thanks.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>That’s pretty clear. It’s always a challenge, but lots of people seem to handle it just fine.</p>
<p>VeryHappy just owned you with the Christian male comment lol.</p>
<p>Are you accounting for the white females who are not Christian or Jewish? Take out the Buddhists, atheists, etc. Also, within Christianity, are you looking for a specific Church? Would you consider going out with a scientologist / westboro associate?</p>
<p>The above was suppose to be humorous. In all honesty, don’t expect to find your life-long soul mate in college. Or if you do, please don’t do anything you’re going to regret 20 years down the line when you mature as a person and are no longer interested in whatever you’re interested in now.</p>
<p>
Shouldn’t the lesbians also be removed? White girls that only wish to date non-white men?
I’m beginning to think the OP should bring one from home.</p>
<p>Your calculation methods are not really correct. Just sayin.</p>
<p>The OP’s concerns are pretty valid. I sincerely hope that he has trouble getting a date. I expect that very few of the women who meet his criteria will be interested in dating a guy for whom their skin color and religion are the most important things about them. On the other hand, if there are women who want to meet someone like him, it should be easy for them to find each other. The room is not likely to be crowded.</p>
<p>Yes, I’m looking for same in white female. I’m hetero. if I take out the lesbians and white girls who only date non-white men then I’m probably down to less than 100 prospects. Anyhow, my parents met in college. I am hoping to do similar. Seriously the numbers look bleak.</p>
<p>The source of my numbers is collegeboard.com - 42% WHITE and the Jewish numbers are from Hillel [url=<a href=“http://phillyhillel.org/campuses]CAMPUSES[/url”>http://phillyhillel.org/campuses]CAMPUSES[/url</a>]. It’s legit.</p>
<p>“Of the 20,000 students at Penn (10,000 undergraduate, 10,000 graduate), 6,000 are Jewish (3,000 undergraduate, 3,000 graduate).” Source Hillel.</p>
<p>you don’t HAVE TO find your future wife in college. Just making that clear. And based on the numbers, it really looks bad for you. You also need to take out the ones who won’t look attractive to you, the ones for whom you won’t look attractive, the ones you just won’t be able to get along with, etc etc.</p>
<p>There is a new game for the nintendo DS that allows you to marry a virtual girl. Maybe you should look into that - you could customize her to your liking ;)</p>
<p>Why did you need to divide by 4 to get to only the freshmen?</p>
<h1>38% White/Non-Hispanic</h1>
<h1>18% Race/ethnicity unreported</h1>
<p>53% women
The above is from collegeboard.com (first year students)
Where did you get the 42% white number?</p>
<p>Doesn’t make sense to divide by 4. If you are willing to date people older than you, you should be multiplying by 7/4. Otherwise, just leave it at 600 because of incoming classes.</p>
<p>600 isn’t bad at all. The real question is, how many girls would actually want to go out with someone like you? College campuses are pretty liberal, and Penn is no exception.</p>
<p>
Probably a lot of girls that come from similar backgrounds and have religious beliefs similar to the OP would be interested in dating him. I doubt he’ll have any more difficulty (or success) than most other students… particularly if he gets involved in some religious organizations / church groups.</p>
<p>now there’ll be at least one white guy at penn not interested in asian girls…</p>
<p>Penn is not the place where most females are looking for a MRS degree. A lot of them have career plans that include grad school and it is so much simpler to be single when deciding on grad school.</p>
<p>You will get dates, but maybe not a mate.</p>
<p>^^ might as well add you shouldn’t struggle with finding a partner.
Penn does have fewer MRS degree seekers but that shouldn’t stop one from being cautious.</p>