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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]

Because all-women’s colleges aren’t popular anymore. [/quote]

Wellesley and Barnard do fine

Bryn mawr never attracted either the polish or the latter or the hyper elite of the former hence it’s issue [/quote]

I don't think that's true. When women's options were limited, Bryn Mawr was a famously intellectual place. It's just that women's colleges lost their original mandate, and their new one fixated on transgressive gender and sexuality is not equally good.[/quote]

then why do Wellesley and Barnard manage the “opening up of women’s options” much better than bm?

It’s literally because of what I said:

Wellesley is so elite it doesn’t matter if women can go to hypsm now, they will always have a market

And Barnard has always taken prettier/more socially polished girls than bM because there’s always a market for going to a top school in the city

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Well I know several smart Gen Z girls from NWDC who went to Wellesley and Barnard, but as it happens, they're all queer. Barnard has a reputation, deserved or not, for making Columbia available to girls who couldn't get into Columbia. Wellesley girls would likely have had other options, but the fact that they chose a women's college probably has something to do with a lack of interest in dating men on campus.

There are two things about the women's college of yesteryear that you seem to be confusing: they used to take "pretty/socially polished girls" and they used to be intellectual powerhouses for the brightest women with nowhere else to go. Bryn Mawr may have also included the former, but it used to be famous for the latter. [/quote]

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