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These stunning numbers simply reflect McGill's demographics. Like campuses across the country, it's a dating paradise for boys. McGill has three female undergraduates for every two males, and it is typical.

These trends hold true throughout North America, in every ethnic and income group. In the United States, many Ivy League and other elite schools have abandoned gender-blindness in admissions so that they can keep their ratios close to 50-50. The only remaining bastions of male supremacy are engineering, and the hardest of the hard sciences, such as physics. In Canada, if you want to find a majority of men you'll have to go to Waterloo, where computers and engineering rule.

Which raises the unsettling question: Where did all the boys go?

Nobody knows.

"I'd like to tell you that men make it up by being in community college," says Dr. Cappon. "But they don't."

Some people argue that all the effort devoted to fixing the gender gap that used to exist for girls has come at the expense of boys. The school culture has become so feminized, they say, that boys are set up for failure.

It's hard to say whether the boys are actually doing worse, or whether the girls are simply doing so much better. What's clear is that from the earliest age, the boys are lagging, and the longer they're in school the worse it gets.