Dude applies for women’s college, hoping to find a girlfriend

Looking towards the future, one male high school graduate is hoping to be accepted into his dream school — a women’s one.

“The school has many female students, if I pass the entrance examination I won’t have to worry about not being able to find a partner,” 18-year-old Sun Linjie was filmed as saying, rather frankly, in an interview about his decision to apply for admissions into the China Women’s University (中华女子学院) in Beijing.

Though the university’s name might lead you to believe that it is an all-women’s school, that is not quite true — 1% of the student body is male.

Prospective male students are only allowed to enroll in the college’s broadcasting degree program. Sun says that the competition for the few spots open to those with both an X and Y chromosome is quite intense, with only one male student being admitted last year.

In a subsequent interview with the Yangtze Evening News, Sun explained that increasing his odds of finding a girlfriend was not his only reason for wanting to attend the China Women’s University, which was founded back in 1949 as a school for the cadres of the All-China Women’s Federation.

The teenager from Ningbo told reporters that initially he was attracted to school because it was in Beijing, then because of its prestigious broadcasting program which could help him secure a good job after graduation.

Of course, not being one of China’s many “bare branches” would be another plus to enrolling at the institution. Because of a traditional preference for boys combined with the only recently abandoned “one child” policy, China suffers from a severe gender imbalance which will keep tens of millions of men from being able to find wives.

Sun has passed the interview stage of the admissions test and is now through to the final round. He says that while his parents are generally supportive of his choice, his father has warned him not to be “assimilated” by the feminine atmosphere at the school and lose his masculinity. The teenager said that he has laughed off his dad’s warnings.

Meanwhile, netizens have warned of another potential consequence of enrolling at a women’s college: “In four years, he won’t be able to skip a single class.”

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