<p>i put this on the parents forum, but wanted more opinions</p>
<p>As i get deeper and deeper into my college search, Womens colleges become more and more attractive. I think they are very appealing, unfortunately most people roll their eyes when i mention this option. They think of softball and flannel.
Specificaly, I like Scripps, Smith and Mount Holyoke..
So, does anyone have good/bad experiences with women's colleges..</p>
<p>is anyone else dealing with the same issues with peers over the issue?</p>
<p>Other people’s eye rolling does not matter.
The question is the right fit for you.
My friends who are graduates of all-women’s colleges are all confident, outspoken women. I think a school where you have the option to take a couple of classes at another (coed) college is a great choice.</p>
<p>I know someone who is at Scripps now, and I think she’s really enjoying it. Scripps is one of the 5 Claremont colleges, so you have 4 other coed schools literally right next to it- you would live with only girls, but you would have some males in some classes (cross-registering).</p>
<p>I know awesome people who love their womens’ schools (Smith, Barnard). One big advantage is that if you’re a science person you won’t experience the prejudice you might see in a coed science program. My friend chose Smith for that reason.</p>
<p>Also, sounds like Smith would be favorably disposed to prospective science majors atm.</p>
<p>well, i’m planning on a science major…so that sounds good!!</p>
<p>I probably would’ve considered a girls school if I weren’t planning on going into nursing. Nursing+an all girls school doesn’t seem too great to me. I’ll get enough of girls in most of my classes. Plus, the selection of women’s colleges that have nursing is fairly low.</p>
<p>I have a friend at Bryn Mawr and a friend at Barnard, and they both absolutely love their schools!</p>
<p>I went to a women’s college (Spelman College) and I absolutely loved it. It was a great place that nurtured me and encouraged me – I really don’t think I’d be doing a Ph.D now if I hadn’t gone to a women’s college. It wasn’t on the radar when I first got there, but a couple of professors noticed a skill and nurtured that into a talent and a passion 
And there was a men’s college and a co-ed university in our consortium, so plenty of opportunities for socialization with the opposite sex. I took plenty of co-ed classes. Smith, Mount Holyoke and Scripps all have that as well (most women’s colleges do, especially the top ones).</p>
<p>Softball and flannel? Sounds like the people you’re talking to are the ignorant ones. This is going to sound corny, but it was really uplifting to go to college at a place where all of the leaders were women – both the student leaders (SGA president, club presidents, organizers, etc.) but also the faculty and staff leaders (college president, deans and provost, much of the faculty, etc.) The faculty were role models for me; in my case, they exemplified how it was possible to maintain an identity as a woman and have a life outside of work and still be a great professor, which is what I was worried about when considering a Ph.D. If you’re planning on a science major, there’s that, too – even at my women’s college many of my science professors were female, and they demonstrated how to be a woman in science through role modeling. You’d be surprised at how much that matters.</p>
<p>SingDanceRunLife, you’re right about the nursing programs - that was a problem at my alma mater. A lot of young women wanted to do nursing and they didn’t have it. Agnes Scott College in GA has a 3-2 nursing program with Emory University (you get a BA from ASC and a BSN from Emory in 5 years), and my college is attempting to do something similar in the next few years, but a lot of young women didn’t want to spend 5 years in school getting a nursing degree when they could go somewhere else – often cheaper! – and earn the same thing in four.</p>
<p>Well I thought this thread was going to ask for suggestion of all womens school. I heard of one in New York City, maybe a decent LAC, across from Columbia University… somewhat spelled like Barnard.</p>
<p>juillet - Yeah. No way would I want to spend 5 years getting what I could in 4. Seems like a waste of time to me.</p>
<p>Girls schools make me think of K-12. It’s uncommon to hear a single-sex postsecondary institution call itself that–“women’s college” is by far the preferred term.</p>
<p>There have been some good threads dedicated to women’s colleges on CC. I’m an alum of one so they tend to catch my eye.</p>
<p>^^^where did you go?</p>
<p>I went to a college that is now co-ed, so it’s not an option for young women seeking a single-sex environment.</p>
<p>I have been surprised at the number of grads I’ve met from women’s colleges who said they enrolled at their college for other reasons, carrying some misgivings about the single-sex environment. But once they were there, they came to think that was one of the best aspects to their experience. That was my thinking, too.</p>