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Are there any woman-only scholarships? Because I'm sure there are no man-only.

TheCatt wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 1:26 pm And why is 2011-2021 shown as "projected" in that 2nd graph?

First, no idea. I noticed that after posting and thought, "meh, the overall point isn't wrong".

TheCatt wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 1:26 pm If anything, colleges have been making it easier for men to get in for the past 10 years to try and bring more balance.

To your point, SCOTUS shot down AA admissions in July 2023, which was all about getting more women and minorities into college. (Note: Against the wishes of the political left who think it was still desperately needed.) One of the biggest flaws in government is that they try to remedy a problem and then never follow up on it. Preferred admissions based on race and gender should have ended years ago. Schools DO seem to be panicking about the lower rate of male admission.

However, preferred admissions for women still do exist depending on the school. For example, many schools focused on IT, engineering, etc. still have programs like that, which is not shocking.

Not surprisingly, many of the schools that favor female applicants have “Tech” in their name; Worcester Polytechnic Institute (63% v. 44%), Georgia Tech (28% v. 17%), and Caltech (11% v. 5%) all have a much higher acceptance rate for young women. MIT’s acceptance rate for women is more than double that of male applicants (11% v 5%).

Other top schools without the official “Tech” designation that grant favor to female applicants include Carnegie Mellon (21% v. 12%) and Harvey Mudd (24% v. 9%). Of course, all of these schools are known for their strengths in the same, and typically male-dominated areas of concentration mentioned above.

GORDON wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 2:24 pm Are there any woman-only scholarships?

Yes

Acceptance rates aren't necessarily against the same population. If women are better high school students, they would be more likely to get into college. Would need more details.

https://hechingerreport.org/an-unnotice ... to-get-in/

When Shayna Medley worked as an admissions officer at Brandeis University nearly a decade ago, she said, the message from above was clear: Find more men.
After all, the number of men applying to college had already begun to fall below the number of women — a trend that would soon accelerate, worsening a growing nationwide decline in enrollment. But admissions officers still wanted to balance out the number of men and women on campus.

“Toward the end of filling out the class, there would definitely be a push to look for more men to admit,” said Medley, who was in her role at Brandeis from 2012 to 2014. “The standards were certainly lower for male students.”

https://archive.is/g1pio

“There was definitely a thumb on the scale to get boys,” says Sourav Guha, who was assistant dean of admissions at Wesleyan University from 2001 to 2004. “We were just a little more forgiving and lenient when they were boys than when they were girls. You’d be like, ‘I’m kind of on the fence about this one, but — we need boys.’” Jason England, a professor of English at Carnegie Mellon who worked in admissions at Wesleyan from 2004 to 2006, says the process sometimes pained him, especially when he saw an outstanding young woman from a disadvantaged background losing out to a young man who came from privilege. “The understanding is that if we’re going to have close to a 50-50 split, then we need to admit men, and women are going to suffer,” he says of that time.

The SCOTUS decision will apparently have less impact on gender-based affirmative action for men than it did for race-based admissions policies.

Even now that the Supreme Court has struck down race-based affirmative action, colleges are very likely not panicking about their efforts to maintain some control over their gender ratios: The Supreme Court gives parties more leeway to discriminate on the basis of gender than it does on the basis of race.

TheCatt wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 1:26 pmWhat programs?

Also, this still.

Well, there are 4 male only colleges in the U.S., but 26 female only colleges.

For fun, I googled "female only programs to help college students" and these are the results.

Then I googled "male only programs to help college students" and here are those results.

Programs for both, but far, far more for women. I live in a household with several women and hear about programs created for women all the time. My wife is in school because of one.

Leisher wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 4:16 pm Programs for both, but far, far more for women. I live in a household with several women and hear about programs created for women all the time. My wife is in school because of one.

Sure, legacies of the past that don't die. But admissions pretty clearly favor men these past couple of decades.

TheCatt wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 4:27 pm But admissions pretty clearly favor men these past couple of decades.

The point of my previous post where I said, "to your point" was confirming that some admissions had been favoring men lately. However, you lose me at "past couple of decades".

Also, the program my wife is in was just created by our female governor.

Leisher wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 4:38 pm

TheCatt wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 4:27 pm But admissions pretty clearly favor men these past couple of decades.

The point of my previous post where I said, "to your point" was confirming that some admissions had been favoring men lately. However, you lose me at "past couple of decades".

Then you haven't been paying attention. I posted a couple of articles about it, and there are plenty more.

TheCatt wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 4:47 pm Then you haven't been paying attention. I posted a couple of articles about it, and there are plenty more.

If those articles are correct, then their plans to admit more men is spectacularly failing.

Maybe it's because of the culture in and on colleges?

Leisher wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 4:54 pm

TheCatt wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 4:47 pm Then you haven't been paying attention. I posted a couple of articles about it, and there are plenty more.

If those articles are correct, then their plans to admit more men is spectacularly failing.

Maybe it's because of the culture in and on colleges?

It's hard to get firm data on this issue, but there's a significant, consistent effort to get more men to college. But I can't find enough data on how much of an impact it's having. Is it the difference between 60/40 and 70/30, or 80/20, or just like 63/37?

It was about 3:1 F:M during my kid's college orientation stuff.

I don't know that any guy that has a brain good enough for higher education is going to go into HVAC instead simply because there's an anti-male bias in young adults these days............. but maybe? Maybe the bias is hitting them even earlier so they never develop the drive to go farther. Fewer males are teaching the younger grades, partly because of the threat of accusations you can't get out of. Maybe fewer role models is affecting the psyches of boys. Maybe it isn't good for a developing mind to constantly tell them they are bad in every way.

There aren't enough hot, young teachers willing to fuck the students to give the boys good self esteem.

I rather enjoyed people at a university with more women than men, no idea what people are whining about.

GORDON wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 5:27 pm I don't know that any guy that has a brain good enough for higher education is going to go into HVAC instead simply because there's an anti-male bias in young adults these days

I know several going their own way or trades, but not because of the anti-male bias. It's more they don't see the need to put themselves into debt. They're not wrong.

And perhaps that's the plot twist we're missing?

Women are attending college thinking the playing field is even for them now, when in reality, men have abandoned college. They're not going into debt for four years of mostly shitty educations and a mostly meaningless piece of paper. Instead they're going to trade schools, tech schools, self studying, or just paving their own way.

There's a meme with men and women starting a race on a track, and the women's lanes are cluttered with things like having to make dinner, clean the house, whatever, and the men lanes are clear.

Which is fucking stupid.

1. The only things we clutter our lanes with is stuff we volunteer for. Maybe women should make better choices, as catt would say
2. Single dad here says fuck off with that "nothing in my lane" shit

GORDON wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 8:32 pm There's a meme with men and women starting a race on a track, and the women's lanes are cluttered with things like having to make dinner, clean the house, whatever, and the men lanes are clear.

There's a much deeper conversation to be held about such feminist propaganda, gender roles, etc., but I'm too tired for that shit.

Modern Feminism has really done great things for women...

Leisher wrote: ↑Sun Dec 22, 2024 5:14 pm Modern Feminism has really done great things for women...

Eh, I have no issues with it.

Ya.. I'm not sure why that makes her "disgusting".

I mean, to put yourself through that, just to make a point or something? I don't get it. But, it's her body, so, whatever. But disgusting? That's quite judgy.

TheCatt wrote: ↑Sun Dec 22, 2024 6:49 pm

Leisher wrote: ↑Sun Dec 22, 2024 5:14 pm Modern Feminism has really done great things for women...

Eh, I have no issues with it.

That's one of our society's biggest issues. We are pretending that the roles nature gives us don't apply, or turn a blind eye to it. That's why there are people who think men participating in women's sports is "fair". It's because they refuse to acknowledge scientific reality. All of these OF girls are being convinced that women should be acting just like men and now face long term mental trauma, not to mention the societal ramifications for selling your body publicly.

Men and women are not the same, physically or mentally.

Women are not designed to be promiscuous. Go check the stats on the porn industry, specifically how long female stars stick around vs male stars. Oh, and check those suicide rates too.

Very interesting that modern feminism's version of female empowerment is to give men exactly what they want at the expense of their own mental well being and perceived value as a partner.

Cakedaddy wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2024 2:41 am But disgusting? That's quite judgy.

I would agree on the poster's wording as well. The act might be disgusting, but does that mean she's disgusting? I'd say she's more damaged.

I feel sad for everyone involved.

The men are pathetic in every respect, and she may have had some value at one point, aside from the things she would allow inside her vagina.