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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stand-alone women's colleges like MHC, Smith and Wellesley (unlike Barnard or Bryn Mawr) are very distinctive in culture.  A student really needs to be sure she wants that experience.  I went to Wellesley and am grateful for the education I received there and for the wonderful friends I made, but if the Way-Back Machine landed in my front yard, I'd go back to HS and choose a coed college.   [/quote]

Just curious. How is Bryan Mawr not a stand-alone women’s college? I get your point about Barnard but Bryn Mawr?[/quote]

True, Barnard is actually part of Columbia, but Bryn Mawr is literally next door to Haverford, the dining halls on both campuses are open to students from both schools, and students at either school can very easily take courses at the other school.   [/quote]

So, how does this make Bryan Mawr different from Wellesley? Less than 2 miles from Babson, today’s Wellesley women can take courses at Babson and vice versa. And students on the meal plan can use each other’s cafeterias. Close to 400 students cross register each year within the BOW Collaborative in Wellesley.[/quote]

It's true that Wellesley is very close to Babson but the most popular is the cross-registration registration program with MIT, as well as a separate Undergraduate Research Opportunities program with MIT. There are also cross-registration with Brandeis and Olin. To some extent the MHC participation in the 5-college consortium serves the same.[/quote]

I don’t know what  “the most popular is the cross-registration program with MIT” even means. Source? Numbers? Regardless of how many Wellesley students WANT to cross-register at MIT, there are incredible obstacles to overcome. The first is logistics. there is an additional 2 hours of travel time by bus or one hour by car minimum for each class attended. Is anyone doing this for a course that meets 3 times per week? Second is fitting it into your schedule, not to mention issues related to the overall schedules obetween the 2 colleges. Third is the requirement that each Wellesley student attending MIT must be offset by an MIT student attending Wellesley. How many MIT students are doing that when they can cross-register next door at Harvard?

Cross-registration between Wellesley and MIT is more analogous to Bryn Mawr andUPenn except that travel between BMC and UPenn is easier. In neither case is there the proximity that allows students to bike between campuses or bump into each other at the same local coffee shops.[/quote]

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