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By: Marlize Duncan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dating is hard. <\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Being a Black woman and dating at a predominantly white institution is even harder \u2013 I’ve done it. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Similarly to my peers, I wanted to date Black men. It makes sense when Black women are the least likely to marry outside of their race<\/a>. But Black women almost always outnumber Black men at universities. In a 2018 study by the National Center for Education Statistics<\/a>, about a third of Black men were enrolled in college, but Black women beat them out with a 41 percent enrollment rate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now imagine trying to date in an environment like that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knowing that the ups and downs of college dating aren\u2019t just shared between me and my friends, I had to see how other Black women were faring at PWI campuses across the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n