Here's a general attitude shift that will help average guys get laid in college and reach that top 20% of the social pyramid. Forget everything RP has taught you about SMV. Social value is everything, it trumps looks, money, and even your cold approach skills in college. Social value is not social skills per se, but consistent application of social skills IN THE RIGHT SETTINGS is what over time will ramp up your social value.

College is about social game - it is a massive pyramid and you will likely never be at the top given what you've told me, but you must be within the top 20%. Obviously you need to pack on some muscle and go hard in your classes, but for getting girls, you need to establish yourself socially.

When in doubt, think what do extroverts do? Join groups. IDC if its a frat or a jazz ensemble or theatre, you need to be involved in some social activity on 75% of days. First semester, join 5 groups filled with cool guys and women. Salsa, some art/musical shit, a sporty thing (I did intramural crew, it does not have to be some varsity d1 football shit for it to matter), a frat if you can, and an outdoorsy thing. Each place is a venue - you should be hitting up 1-2 of these social gatherings every night.

When you are there, you will be the bridge between groups. The extrovert. You will meet people, they will like you because you are outgoing, fun, non-judgmental, and most importantly, YOU KNOW OTHER PEOPLE. Everyone is looking to meet and connect and link up with other cool kids. What successful college kids do is they establish themselves in 2-3 groups and introduce the cool guys and all girls within the groups to each other. They are the common factor, the LCD, so to everyone they have social value.

Bust your ass to find out where the cool parties are and be the guy who others know if they roll with, they will get in. Never be used for this - always ask for something in return in a fun way. For example if I'm bringing 2-3 theater guys to my crew teams party, I'll tell them I want to see their scene to compare. (And holy shit, theater parties after a show are fucking insane my god, be an attractive straight guy and profit). You then meet people in their scene (the girls) and you can tease them a little with some "hey, you all should go a party with some guys who like girls, my frat / team / activity has a mixer..." shit.

Now you have eclipsed the original guys - whereas those first 2-3 theater bros had "bridge" value to me and I needed to go through them to access their women, now I can circumvent them (or not, if they are cool, keep them close).

After social establishment, then comes the pussy. There's two types of game to run - party game and social game. Party game is you find a girl on the dance floor of some frat, you grind with her, you only neg if she's clearly high value herself (don't neg nervous freshmen dear god). Escalate physically, bring her back to your room to show her X (at my school no frats could serve booze after 2am, so at 2am my friend with an apartment would have a few guys + like 10 girls over for some shitty cocktails. That is partygame - go out, talk to a girl, move her to the dancefloor, escalate, move her away from her friends so they don't see her going home with you and slut shame later, then come up with a way to get her out of the party before the party dies.

Party game nets you ONS and often burns contacts. Social game offsets this (inflow versus outflow) and allows you to have many more opportunities to run your party game. When you want a LTR / steady plate, it's social game that's likely to provide that.

So what do you do in that case? If it's a girl you are in class with, you need to find a way to show your social value. Chat them towards the end of the week, ask them about their plans on friday and decline to tell them yours (make them ask). "We're chilling at my place then heading out to X cool place. Wait a second. You said you were just going to be doing (whatever she said she was doing), ditch that and come along, it's going to be crazy."

This can be after class or if you just bump into the girl randomly. This only works, however, if you are a BRIDGE and she can instantly tell that worst case scenario, she will gain social value out of going with you.

Who in the frat scene gets laid the most? The average bro? No, absolutely wrong, the bridge. The one who knew the various girls from their social game they run on a 24/7 basis and thus could invite these different groups. The bridge guy doesn't even have to be in the frat - at my school there was this short Jewish guy who was cool as shit and always brought girls. He'd bring 2 to a fucking BBQ on the lawn, he was always welcome but didn't want to join for various reasons. We wanted him to continue this - he provided social value - so we'd always talk him up and put him in front of girls.

Yes, it is kinda stupid. Yes, you are probably an introvert or identify at least as a non-extrovert, but that must change. Lone wolf game is SHIT for college, idgaf what anecdote you have. College game is about understanding the ways to hack your way to the top of the pyramid through strings of successful social interactions (some guys naturally may be there because of they are athletes or whatever, but that's not you).

"Don't be boring." is the female way of saying "don't be low social value, offer me fun with cool people and social advancement, I'll fuck your brains out." Take girls off the pedestal; they do not want intellectual stimulation. Most of them are bored as shit in their expensive courses and are trying to get shit faced on the weekends, they are not wanting you to stimulate their minds. They want fun. Provide fun, thwack yourself on the head when you provide them with intellectual stimulation.

Most of you here are "smart guys." Be a dumb guy - dumb, loud extrovert game will keep your efforts to be a bridge from seeming like beta tryhard networking.

Don't try to avoid the nature of college with some "I'll just play LoL in my dorm and then sneak out on friday to a party, bang some girl, and sneak back to write a FR." This can work in theory, but it's wayyy more effort and low % of success in the long run than actually constructing an ecosystem that generates pussy for you.

Good luck college bros, use rubbers, don't fuck drunk girls, it's not worth it, protect your reputation, and build several interlocking venn diagram inner circles with you at the center.

Edit: Few people are asking for further reading. There is no book on this that I know of. Here is what has shaped my ideology on college game:

Art of Seduction - Robert Greene. In college, I assume everyone is wanting something from me and everyone has something to offer me. Everyone is just basically trying to get value, everyone has a different angle. This book is key because it shows you many different options - in an English class, you can seduce my honestly just giving a girl a compliment, telling her that she had a good comment, and you want her to help you out studying. This feeds into her ego and lets her think of herself as cool / a mentor / etc, meaning she now needs you to keep studying with her to sustain that. Don't be a one-trick hack, be a chameleon.

How to Win Friends and Influence People - overall great read. Of course, you should be willing to go outside of Dave Carnegie's "positivity" frame and use some dirty tactics if you have to. But excellent book on how to conduct yourself in SGA (student govt), clubs, leadership positions, and so on. Not "game" per se, but it is important to conduct yourself as a confident, respectable adult who articulates positively - this will help you stand out and turn group projects into lays.

48 Laws - If you are a moralfag, read this book. Quit being up your own ass about morals and whatnot, college is sociopaths in a fishbowl bumping heads. All the men want power and social value, all the women want validation and fun from these guys (and booze). This turns otherwise good people into value-leeches with no morals. Read 48 Laws.

Never Eat Alone - Are you an introvert? Read this book. Kinda "soft" or mainstream, but it's solid. Great networking book.

The Likeability Factor - Great book on the subject of networking and friends and "winning the people". Read this book if people don't like you, it's that simple.

Arnold's BodyBuilding Bible - Aside from the fact that it's Arnold, this book is a great wealth of knowledge on building muscle. The BEST way to bond with guys other than scoring pussy with them and drinking is hitting the gym together. If you read this book, you can take guys under your wing and give them pointers, help them out with their program, and become a leader in that regard. This book is huge and it will teach you more than r/fitness ever can. Go lifting with your friends, beast out, and when they ask or compliment you, you can offer some advice. (Not unsolicited). Help your skinny friends put on muscle and they will start becoming cool too, meeting more women, and making more contacts. It's not a stretch, I've seen this first hand - you literally improve the women in your social circle by lifting with your bros (and offering them good ideas rather than the retarded plan they would have done without you).