<p>I have a daughter at Vandy, but a conversation with two male Vandy students this summer about this topic was pretty revealing. They are both handsome frat boys who take academics seriously. They love Vandy. They seem to have an extremely low opinion of Peabody girls (and boys), describing them as vain and stupid. They respect their A & S female classmates, the ones in their demanding courses. Yet they took great exception to any criticism of the fraternity-sorority world where, they admit, that looks and money matter a lot, and where Peabody students are well-represented “in order to raise GPA levels” (the idea being that it’s easy to have a high GPA in Peabody). When asked whether they were expecting too much of girls – they have to be great students (which takes a lot of time and energy) and have to be great looking (which takes a lot of time an energy and money) they just laughed and the conversation sort of petered out.</p>