<p>Have you visited Reed, or other liberal arts colleges with similar male-female ratios? In my experience, the difference isn’t glaringly obvious on campus, except perhaps in a few departments, until the ratio drops below 70% women.</p>
<p>My daughter, for instance, attends a school with a 60-40 ratio (not Reed). Walking around campus, and in the dorms, you really would not notice. It also has not seemed to affect her social life - she has plenty of male friends, and plenty of dating opportunities.</p>
<p>My son just started at Reed, and he doesn’t seem to have noticed the male-female ratio at all. But then, he has always been comfortable having women as friends, and had some schools with more lopsided male-female ratios on his list.</p>