(Looking for majors, colleges, fields, etc.)
Gimme some of dat Affirmative Action
Men in general – not sure about race:
Art History
English
Classics
Communications
Journalism
Women’s Studies
Psychology
Education
Sociology
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Women’s Studies
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Nursing.
Perhaps also nursing and African-American studies?
Choosing a less popular major won’t get you into elite schools if you’re not qualified to attend. Figure out what you want to study and pursue that.
At some schools, white students seem to be less common in engineering majors than at the school overall. However, engineering tends to be heavily male.
Lots of well-known private schools get significantly more female applicants than male applicants. Schools in this situation often accept men at higher rates than women, so that the final enrollment is closer to 50/50. This pattern is particularly common at liberal arts colleges, urban schools, and former women’s colleges that have gone coed.
For example, College Navigator shows that for Fall 2015:
- Brown got 18,104 female applicants vs. 12,292 male applicants
- Vassar got 5,238 female applicants vs. 2,328 male applicants
- Middlebury got 5,189 female applicants vs. 3,702 male applicants.
- American U got 10,696 female applicants vs. 6,039 male applicants.
All of these schools had higher acceptance rates for men than for women. For example, Vassar had a 21% acceptance rate for women, but a 35% acceptance rate for men.
And at many colleges, just saying you want x, without that pattern in academics and ECs, won’t get you far. Imagine saying jouralism, with no writing outside class. Etc.
HBCU, some even have a diversity scholarships. LAC have low applications for men in general. I wouldn’t pick a major base on a boost admission wise. But I don’t see a problem with maybe adding certain schools to the list that may give you a scholarship or app boost base on a hook. But you have to be in the range of the school.
OP, I did list some of the majors that are relatively less popular among men… but you’ll be miserable if you major in something you don’t actually like.
A more sensible advantage to seek is along the lines of posts 7 and 9 – showing preference to a school because the chances of getting in are better for men, or people of certain races, for the sake of diversity/balance. Still, you want to make sure you actually like the school; don’t apply just because it offers certain admissions advantages.
Well, it depends on what you mean by underrepresented. White men aren’t really underrepresented in psychology in research and academia, for example, although I’m sure they may technically be underrepresented at the undergraduate level and in therapists’ ranks. Same thing in classics: white men may be underrepresented in the undergrad major but not in the professional field.
I’m also not sure that white men are underrepresented in journalism - maybe the major, but certainly not the career and definitely not at the highest levels.
I was basing it on choice of undergrad major.
I checked an NPR article for some corroboration:
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/28/359419934/who-studies-what-men-women-and-college-majors
LACs tend to give affirmative action to men of any color, except for Union in NY; the one or two remaining all-male schools like Wabash and Deep Springs; and St. John’s of Annapolis and New Mexico.
Virtually all of the other LACs except for the top maybe 5 on the USN&WR list need more men and use affirmative action to get them. The most notorious example of this, maybe, was kenyon because a rep wrote about the overt affirmative action in a NYTimes op ed and that put the overt kabash on things.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/23/opinion/to-all-the-girls-ive-rejected.html
This is because 1) LACs tend to attract more women than men while Unis tend to attract more men than women and 2) males graduate HS and attend college in markedly smaller numbers than do females.
Bucknell and Lafayette are exceptions; they have a surplus of male applicants, and accept women at higher rates. It may not be coincidental that both are among the few LACs with engineering programs. Another Patriot League school, Lehigh, also favors female applicants, although Lehigh is a small university and not a LAC.
I suspect that any school that has the letters “TECH” somewhere in the name will automatically have a significant shortage of female applicants (MIT, RPI, WPI, Stevens, Cal Poly, Michigan Tech, etc).
^ Don’t forget about the South Harmon Institute of Technology 
Oh, to be a cheerleader at South Harmon IT…
Sorry for snatching up ur spots, ladies… God i hate affirmative action
Male-female for undergraduates at MIT is 54-46. Not that bad a difference.
I think men compete against other men for spots, not against women.