The seven sisters weren’t created to match women to the Ivy League but to give that level of education to women. The first of the seven sisters was Mount Holyoke which isn’t particularly near any Ivy League schools. The rest were inspired by Mount Holyoke. For example the founder of Wellesley was on the board of Mount Holyoke.

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Anonymous wrote:My mom went to Smith and she and all of her friends married Yale men.

How many of them discovered an odd emptiness in their 40s, and after much soul searching, declared free agency & went to play for the other team?

They are still married after 64 years.

While of course there always were gay students there, and at the other all women colleges, I don’t thnk they got that rep until the 70s/80s - basically when all the all male colleges went coed.

I thought they were created so women could nab an Ivy League man?

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Anonymous wrote:Because the Seven Sisters colleges were founded to give women similar education as the Ivy Leagues, is there a way to match them 1 to 1?

Radcliffe = Harvard
Barnard = Columbia
Vassar = Yale (they were almost bought by Yale before becoming co-ed in 1969)
or
Vassar = Brown (open curriculum and more humanities focused)

IMO, Vassar is overrated

Agreed and the mail to female ratio is awful. I likely wouldn't go there unless I was a lesbian.

Sounds like the post office is dropping the balls.

Anonymous wrote:My mom went to Smith and she and all of her friends married Yale men.

How many of them discovered an odd emptiness in their 40s, and after much soul searching, declared free agency & went to play for the other team?

Smith-Yale

Remember Emily and Richard from the Gilmore girls?

Pembrooke is not/was not one of the Seven Sisters.

Anonymous wrote:Pembroke was the women's school associated with Brown.

I was just about to say this. My grandmother graduated from Pembrooke. Brown was all-male until 1971 when Pembrooke merged with Brown.

Anonymous wrote:Wellesley = Princeton

I agree with this. W alum here. DC attends Princeton, and it seems like a larger coed Wellesley to me.

But during my time at W, all I knew were Harvard, MIT and the other Boston area schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Because the Seven Sisters colleges were founded to give women similar education as the Ivy Leagues, is there a way to match them 1 to 1?

Radcliffe = Harvard
Barnard = Columbia
Vassar = Yale (they were almost bought by Yale before becoming co-ed in 1969)
or
Vassar = Brown (open curriculum and more humanities focused)

IMO, Vassar is overrated

Agreed and the mail to female ratio is awful. I likely wouldn't go there unless I was a lesbian.

Anonymous wrote:My mom went to Smith and she and all of her friends married Yale men.

Nowadays, Smithies marry other Smith women!

Wellesley = Princeton

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Anonymous wrote:My mom went to Smith and she and all of her friends married Yale men.

Ah, but my mom went to Bryn Mawr and married a Yalie. And her friend from Smith married an engineer from RPI! My understanding is that everyone spent a lot of time in cars. My mom was with a group in some Princeton boy’s car, carpooling up to Yale, when Kennedy was assassinated.

Lol, Mawrtyr here who also married an RPI engineer!

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Anonymous wrote:Because the Seven Sisters colleges were founded to give women similar education as the Ivy Leagues, is there a way to match them 1 to 1?

Radcliffe = Harvard
Barnard = Columbia
Vassar = Yale (they were almost bought by Yale before becoming co-ed in 1969)
or
Vassar = Brown (open curriculum and more humanities focused)

IMO, Vassar is overrated

The “Vassar overrated” troll lives! We hadn’t heard from you in a while. What did they do to you to make you so butt-hurt?

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Anonymous wrote:Where did Fawn Leibowitz go before dying in a kiln accident? Because that is obviously where Dartmouth men went to meet women.

Excuse me, you mean Faber. Signed, Senator Blutarsky.

LOL. Fair enough. Now I will be on double secret probation. Thank you sir, may I have another.