Gender Discrepancy

I'm a third year at a mid-tier UC, with a fairly even male to female ratio (something like 47% male 53% female). I remember in my first week of college freshman year when I walked into the pre med AMSA meeting, there was an enormous gender discrepancy... I'm talking like 93-95% female. My school has a pretty large pre med AMSA too, like a few hundred students, so this was pretty hard to believe.

In the summer after my first year, I went on a two week medical volunteer trip to costa rica, and I found myself in a similar position: Of the 44 participants, there were 41 females and 3 males (including myself).

This year, I participated in an internship very common among pre meds. Exactly the same outcome- 90+% female, <10% male.

Now, just to be clear, I'm not exactly complaining... I just don't know where all of the other pre med guys are. Is this just happening at my school, or are all schools like this?

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Gender Discrepancy