Letters to the Editor
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Number vs proportion
Interesting. My son is starting college at a four-year liberal arts school next fall, and on the campus tour in March, we were handed demographic information for the class that entered last fall. It was 68% girls and 32% boys, and a footnote stated that those numers were typical for recent college entrance classes all over the U.S. So while the sheer numbers of boys graduating from college may be increasing, I wonder how much of that is due to 1) more kids going to college than 25 years ago, and 2) the baby boomlet that my son is part of. I've read other articles that claim the percentage of boys who go on to graduate from college has gone down. (At any rate, my son's reaction to his future school's male/female ratio was, "Well, I like those odds.")