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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

You're not responding to me, but Bryn Mawr established itself as a very brainy place for the smartest women in the middle decades of the 20th century. Those women are gone now that they can attend any school, and now the draw for Bryn Mawr is entirely different. If you feel drawn to the place as parents who know the name because of what it used to be, then you should know that place is gone. [/quote]

You’re right, she should  just send her kid to Stamford. Why bother with matches and likelies when she should  just go to Stamford? [/quote]

Stanford[/quote]

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