<p>I'm thinking of applying to women's colleges this fall.
But I'm not sure if I would do a good job at a women't college.
What are some advantages/disadvatages of women's colleges?
Are they really competetive?
Are there a lot of dramas among the girls on campus?
Please tell me all about women's colleges!
Thanks!</p>
<p>I’m not a female so my opinion probably doesn’t matter much…</p>
<p>…but why would you want to join one of these? It sounds like sheltering to me; trying to hide from the real world. Don’t you think you could be a stronger person if you went to a co-ed school and faced the potential difficulties there? </p>
<p>I dunno. Maybe I just don’t know how it feels :P</p>
<p>ya it sounds hella gay and boring</p>
<p>I was going to let you have someone who’s been to one answer, but you’re getting awful answers so far so I’ll throw in my two cents of why I would consider going to one. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable will jump in. </p>
<p>Perhaps less distraction in terms of dating and whatnot? </p>
<p>Perhaps there is less competition by gender? (ie no stigma for women in science fields, etc) </p>
<p>Perhaps these environments are more conservative? The womens only residence halls at my school are very strict and conservative, but that’s all I have to go on. Someone else will have to tell you.</p>
<p>If you’ve ever visited a coed residence hall, you can normally tell the difference between the mens floors and the womens floors by the smell. :P</p>
<p>I would also imagine a lot of people go to womens colleges because the specific college is a great school and just so happens to be a womens college.</p>
<p>I’d have never considered going to one when I was 18, but at 20 now I’m thinking it may actually have been an environment worth at least looking into.</p>
<p>You will have lots of hot girls walking around to choose from.</p>
<p>In all seriousness though, I went to an all-boys high school. From my experience, you spend less time worrying about the opposite sex and how you will look in front of them. I doubt there will be much drama, none of the all-girls schools (9-12) I am familiar with had anything near the level of drama the public schools do, again this has to do with lack of worrying about the opposite sex.</p>
<p>I’ll be attending Smith in the fall and this topic comes up on its board sometimes. You should check out these threads:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/smith-college/762730-convince-me-please.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/smith-college/762730-convince-me-please.html</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/smith-college/179414-why-all-womens-schools.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/smith-college/179414-why-all-womens-schools.html</a></p>
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In all seriousness though, I went to an all-boys high school. From my experience, you spend less time worrying about the opposite sex and how you will look in front of them. I doubt there will be much drama, none of the all-girls schools (9-12) I am familiar with had anything near the level of drama the public schools do, again this has to do with lack of worrying about the opposite sex.
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<p>So true. Last year I wore the same pair of khaki pants for like a month straight. Surprisingly it didn’t smell too bad, but I had to wash it because someone spilled mustard on them. </p>
<p>But for all guys school (this probably doesn’t apply to girls as much), older friends and people my parents were friends with said going to an all-dude school was really good, “no distractions”. Well, yeah, no girls, so you don’t really have to worry about that.
But group a bunch of guys together and, trust me, we will find lots of ways to screw around and still have our fun. Now if their were girls there, we’d probably be much better behaved, lol.</p>
<p>But that’s H.S. and I’m sure college at a single sex school would be a lot different. But I sure as hell don’t want to go to one of those colleges, haha. 4 years with schooling with just dudes is plenty long enough, thank you very much.</p>
<p>I am a junior at Bryn Mawr College. I will write a more extensive reply at some point but I am too tired right now. In a nutshell: women’s colleges are very sheltered in many different ways (I’ll elaborate later), but there is very little drama. No dating scene - as a college official put it today, “The average Bryn Mawr student has one date in her 4-5 years at the camp, but she tries to make the most of it.” Note the choice of “camp” instead of “college.” Less parties than at co-ed schools.</p>
<p>All of our departments try to make themselves very accessible to all interested students (there are no weed-out classes), which is good in many ways but sometimes annoying. (“How did this idiot get into physical chemistry?”) What I really do enjoy though are very close relationships with my professors. We can randomly knock on their office doors, we play cards, and on one occasion I have even played DDR with a couple of my professors. Our professors also advocate very much for us - much more so than professors at neighboring co-ed Haverford. I recently participated in a summer program at Cornell, which I was technically not qualified for. I got accepted anyway mostly because my professors put in such a great word for me! That was really quite astounding considering that this particular program had a 4% acceptance rate and that one of the professors in the program told us how many applicants from Harvard and Stanford he had to reject. Have I ever mentioned that I LOVE MY PROFESSORS? Seriously, they are great! And they would do almost anything to create more opportunities for us. </p>
<p>The student body in general is very liberal, very non-competitive (we don’t talk about grades, for example), and very conscious about gender-related issues. In a recent plenary meeting we passed a resolution asking the college administration to make all publications gender neutral, i.e. avoid using the pronouns “she” and “her”. The reasoning was that we have a few transgender (biologically female identifying as male) students on campus, which the current wording does not apply to. On the other hand, some students feel that there is too much pressure to be politically correct at all times.</p>
<p>Maybe people think that the absence of males is a bigger deal that it is. In that case, the guys certainly think highly of themselves 
perhaps assuming that we aren’t socializing normally with men outside of class.</p>
<p>Drama is a no. Definitely the kind of girl who doesn’t play well with other women is not the type attending this kind of school. I think one of the many important lessons women’s colleges teaches is that you can be very successful with the support and community of other females rather than feeling like you have to claw your way to the top.</p>
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YES, shallow reason, but an obvious perk.</p>
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Single-sex aside, women’s colleges tend to have good ratings when it comes to class size, accessibility to professors, and opportunities in general. Also financial aid is a factor.</p>