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The naïveté here about what all women’s schools were all about — and what initially made them great — is astounding.[/quote]

This. To spell it out for the ingenues:

1) The Seven Sisters built their reputation in a time when women had few other educational options and women's colleges were the only game in town.
2) With the rise of widespread co-education since the late 1960s, there is little reason for top women students to go to women's colleges any more (also see: HBCUs).
3) Social life at the women's colleges was much more normal and active when the Ivies and top liberal arts colleges were all male- since the Seven Sisters were the main place for Ivy Leaguers to find socially compatible dates (e.g. George H.W. Bush - Yale - and Barbara Bush - Smith).
4) Now that women can directly attend all the top (formerly male) institutions, the women's colleges have slid into irrelevance as a forum for elite social interaction and assortative mating.
5) Virtually all of the great women's colleges have slid into mediocrity and irrelevance since the 1970s. Wellesley is/was the best of them, but even it is struggling with the point of its continued existence.   
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This is a really good summation.

The thing that wasn't stated is the minefield that is lgbtq today. No one is going to Bryn Mawr today hoping to meet a husband at Yale. It's not the 1950s anymore. And that has affected the student populations at the traditional seven sisters. It's a different population in 2025. [/quote]

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