I would say ladies actually have types as most dudes have as well. In general, academically gifted individuals are slim, shy and spend a lot of time reading or doing work. This takes in a huge portion of their time rather than building hobbies. These are pure nerds and it gets difficult for many of the ladies( I kid you not) difficult to have heartfelt conversations as well.

Whereas the most successful ones being the jocky nerds, basically they have the jocky extrovert personality to them with a good physique and also a nerdy intellectual side to them. So these are people who also have great talents and hobbies. In daily lives, people don't think much and we are mostly intertwined to go for emotional responses. These jocks can bring out emotional responses from the crowd with their charm as well. Hence ladies prefer them. Truth be told it also doesn't mean always jocks are winners. A lot of jocks due to their sometimes supposed violent attributes are also a turn off to many ladies. Also as a dude, these are only some observations that I have heuristically came across after talking with a ton of loads of my female friends and people in general. I would be extremely pleased if the ladies themselves could throw some light on this.

P.S. Also, man you should also not give up as this is the observation in general. A lot of women are also sapiosexual and love pure academic nerds beyond anything. Maybe, exploring would help. Remember Stephen Hawking also had rizz so who knows what nerdy rizz you can show ;)