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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We looked closely at women's colleges. I liked the idea, but after we researched, we decided against that direction. Imo, there are two types of students: activist lesbian and introverted girls who are often from traditional families (and many international families in this group). The only womens college my daughter considered was barnard- because of job opportunities and bc there are boys to date at columbia/grad school, but she didn't like the activist vibe at Barnard. She chose a different school which is a better fit for her academically and socially. Of note, if interested humanities or social sciences, be sure to check the curriculum, course offerings,  areas of faculty research, to understand their ideological preferences.  It's eye opening. [/quote]

Not my experience at all. For many other students at BMC, it was the only women's college that they applied to--the rest were regular co-ed SLACs. I looked at schools that had specific programs and chose Bryn Mawr because it had the program I wanted and was in a better location that the other two colleges that also offered that program; being a women's college was basically neutral to me (mainly because I expected to--and did--take advantage of cross-registration with Haverford, although BMC itself retains the identity of a women's college).

Yes, there were plenty of lesbians there, interestingly some of my gay classmates are now married to men and some of my straight classmates are now married to women. I grew up near/with a parent who worked at a college, so I knew plenty about what goes on and I would definitely choose lesbians over frat parties, drunk guys pulling the fire alarms at 2 am, men peeing in the stairwells, and everything else that goes with throwing hundreds of teenage guys into an unsupervised living space together. [/quote]

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