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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone know why Bryn Mawr isn't ranked that high?  When I applied to colleges in the 1990s, it was ranked the #5 liberal arts school.  I see it is now #31.

Just curious what happened.  [/quote]

All-women’s colleges aren’t mainstream anymore, or attractive to a critical massive of apolitical heterosexual girls, as they were pre-1970s. No debutantes, no weekend trips to meet Yale boys.

Except for maybe Wellesley, they attract and/or target a niche market. And that niche is a combination of upper middle class white lesbian (or lesbian-adjacent) girls;  minorities seeking substantial financial aid, and international students.

Not every American girl wants a “Bama Rush” type of college experience, but they don’t want to join the “Social Justice Movie Club,” either.

The Result, achieved by slow drip over the last several decades: a complete replacement of one type of student body by another; relatively fewer applicants (vs mainstream colleges like NESCACs), higher admission rates, lower status and rankings, etc etc.

Farewell Nancy Davis Reagan. Au revoir, Barbara Pierce Bush.[/quote]

BM is a women's only college in name only. THere is a consortium with other nearby schools (Swat, Haverford, Penn) where they can attend classes, and there are men on campus and in classes, and vice versa. I think there are some restrictions on hour and where and what have you. But it's not "women only" in the way it was in the 1950s. [/quote]

Ok, i give you that it’s not 1950, but i am the person who walks around campus and it sure looks like a women’s college to me. I have really only seen female students. I know men can take classes, but it is definitely a women’s college. The vitriol here is crazy—it’s a great school.[/quote]

It's not vitriol to state facts about a school. Yes, it's a great school.  [b]It's just not what it was.[/b][/quote]

You're probably not what you once were either. But it's not nice to keep harping on it. [/quote]

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