<p>FWIW, my daughter has some of the same concerns. The areas that particularly interest her are majors that are typically mostly female, and reside pretty much totally at Barnard. It appears that the Columbia dorms are only available to Barnard students if they are in a suite with predominantly Columbia students. So classes and dorms will both be predominantly single-sex.</p>
<p>There will be guys around, and at parties, etc. But the proportion does not look good to me. If Columbia itself is 50-50, and then add on Barnard, it looks to me like a great school for a guy to go to. From this one perspective.</p>
<p>To me a likely outcome of this type of situation/ratio is to wind up dating older guys well into their careers. We have friends whose daughter is in school in NYC who is doing exactly that. Face it, that’s who’s around there and available. I don’t really prefer that for our daughter.</p>
<p>But there are tradeoffs, and this is only one consideration. No place is perfect.</p>