<p>“The Columbia college ratio is actually 60/40 male/female”</p>
<p>Actually, Columbia College has more women enrolled than men- 2,194 female vs. 2,030 male.</p>
<p>According to Columbia data I just looked up, undergrad enrollment at Columbia U is 3,854 men and 3,553 women. The percent male/female is 52/48.</p>
<p>When 2,297 Barnard undergrads are added in, the ratio of Columbia + Barnard undergrads is just over 60% female-40% male. Maybe that’s where you picked up on that proportion. This is actually more favorable to females than I thought before doing the numbers. It’s really not much much worse than NYU, IIRC. Not that NYU is good, in that respect.</p>
<p>“Between Columbia and other area colleges, there are plenty of college-age men around for any student who wants to meet them.”</p>
<p>Exactly which area colleges do you have in mind when you make that statement?</p>
<p>As I just mentioned, NYU, which really isn’t near Barnard at all, is also lopsidedly female. Cooper Union has about 5 students, who are all commuters, and is located next to NYU. Outside of those two schools I can’t offhand think of another NYC college that has a remotely similar academic orientation to Barnard/Columbia. There are some big commuter schools, located downtown far removed from Barnard, such as Pace and Baruch. Really not close to the same type of kids are going to these places, for the most part.There is CUNY; ditto. Julliard and FIT- small and also lopsidedly female, I would imagine. Fordham- commuter school, also mostly female, many older students, non-similar academics. Manhattan College, Pratt, Brooklyn Poly- in outer boroughs, not that similar. I don’t know that many Barnard kids would have that much in common with these kids.</p>
<p>So which area schools are you thinking about? I’m just blanking on them, myself.</p>
<p>On the other hand there are obviously tons of smart single guys in various stages of their post-college careers living in NYC, and on the upper west side.</p>
<p>“plenty of college age men”</p>
<p>No doubt; just plenty MORE college-age women. If everyone met kismet their first day there,like churchmusicmom’s daughter, there would still be 1,996 women left over. Ignoring the surplus female population at NYU, FIT, etc. Enough to fill many a (same-sex) liberal arts college all by themselves. These individual anecdotal stories are charming, but the numbers speak for themselves. </p>
<p>In a game of musical chairs, there are only so many chairs. And then you can post “My daughter’s in a chair, so I don’t see a problem”.</p>
<p>But actually now that I’ve looked at these numbers it’s not as bad as I thought. Which is not to say it’s good. YMMV.</p>