<p>scholarships? for Sweet Briar
and plus HSC is right down the road:)</p>
<p>"Anyway, show me a woman who doesn't talk about guys or doesn't want to go shopping."</p>
<p>Many of those that would choose to go to a women's college. I'm so glad I chose one, though it wasn't a factor at the time, because I met a lot of intelligent, down to earth people that just happened to be women. Really restored my faith in my gender. The proportion of women like that at the co-ed schools I know anything about is a LOT lower.</p>
<p>Women's colleges also have a higher proportion of female students studying math and the sciences, and engineering when it's offered.</p>
<p>please elaborate</p>
<p>Me?</p>
<p>Also, earlier in the thread, if we're talking about Erica Jong the writer, she went to Barnard, not Harvard. (A common mistake! ;) )</p>
<p>no, beginning I want to go to Hampden-Sydney in VA which is close to SB. 40,000 A SEMESTER! I have no idea how i am going to pay for it.</p>
<p>I think its cool that you want to go to an all women college. How do your parents feel?</p>
<p>I hear that area's absolutely beautiful (from an SB student).</p>
<p>I used to think I was a freak of my gender. I'll shop when I need to buy something. I like guys, but they're not my life. They were most of my friends, though. All through high school, and my freshman year of college (before I transferred), I was just amazed by how DUMB most girls were, or how dumb they pretended to be for who knows what purpose. Even the academically smart ones were mostly ditzes in expensive heels. They were all GIRLS, not people. Whatever they did, it was always somehow in the context of being a girl. You couldn't get past it.</p>
<p>Then, I transferred to a women's college. No other reason than it was a good school and seemed like a nice place to study. It didn't matter to me that guys would be harder to come by. </p>
<p>And I met SO MANY other people like me. Why would a girl obsessed with guys go to a women's college? A lot more of the people there have other priorities. It's really hard to explain what I mean well enough. I usually say that women's college students are who they are (and are free to be that way), a person with whatever interests they choose, and their gender is only one attribute of their selves. Of course you'll find those confident women anywhere, but I think there's a higher proportion at women's colleges, both by choice and by eventual creation. I know it doesn't make a lot of sense and it probably sounds horribly misogynistic, but I now actually have female friends I respect.</p>
<p>I hope that made at least some sense and I don't come off sounding like a jerk.</p>
<p>(I already graduated from Barnard. My mother's of course super proud.)</p>
<p>Barnard? 10 chact.</p>
<p>wabash, my parents just want me to go to a college where I'll be happy. They don't care if it's Harvard or East Overshoe State Tech. I think I'm very lucky in that respect, because it seems from these boards that a lot of parents get really pushy about certain schools that the students themselves really don't want to go to. My parents are leaving the choice up to me -- with some guidance, of course. :)</p>
<p>My dad went with me for my first visit to Smith and loved it. He likes the school a lot and is happy I'm applying there. Plus, it's only about an hour from home, right up I-91, so that works out nicely.</p>
<p>And Hampden-Sydney doesn't cost $40k a semester; I don't know where you got that from. It's something like $33k, including room and board, for the full year. I think you're reading the information incorrectly.</p>
<p>that's still a lot of $$$. my parents want me to stay in state(AZ)</p>
<p>Oh, I agree. Unfortunately, that's pretty normal nowadays for private colleges. :/</p>
<p>You do realize, though, that the sticker price is almost never the actual price? Apply and see how much financial aid you get. You might actually find that it's more affordable than one of your public colleges. A lot of people discover that. I know for a fact that at least one of the private colleges I'm applying to (Wells) will cost me less than any of my public colleges would just based on automatic merit scholarships I would receive for meeting certain requirements.</p>
<p>No. I think you can get a better experience and education at a co-ed school. The mission of all-female or all-male schools is pretty much out-of-date in this century.</p>
<p>Recent study shows that males can achieve more in single sex atmosphere while females can achieve more in co-ed. That is, in strict academic sense.</p>
<p>can you show those plz?</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>Do you go to Wabash, or will you be attending this year?</p>
<p>Wow, primefactor, I'm going through the same stuff right now that you went through before going to barnard... hmm. now i'm wondering whether a women's college would help me as well :|</p>
<p>I can't live without girls (I'm a guy). so I DEFINITELY need to go to a co-ed school.</p>
<p>I don't know about men's colleges (not like there are many left), but most women's colleges aren't isolated from men at all. Smith and Mount Holyoke, for example, have men in many classes taking courses through the Five Colleges consortium; Wellesley, Simmons, and the other Boston-area women's colleges are in a very large urban area with men all around; Wells (going co-ed next year) has been part of a Cornell-Ithaca consortium for years; Sweet Briar women are constantly socializing with the men attending local colleges; and so on and so forth. You're not living with them, but you're around them every day.</p>
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<p>So they were fine up to 2000, but four years ago all the advantages of a single-sex education dissolved?</p>
<p>I'm bring facetious, of course. The thing is, the missions were somewhat different a century ago. You think they haven't changed since then?</p>
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<p>From what current students at Hampden-Sydney, (one of the four all-male college left in the contry) stated that Thursday-Sunday it's like HSC is Co-ed. Sure you don't have gals in your classes, but you can see them on nights and weekends. For me, attending an all-male school is better, even if it costs more.</p>
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<p>just b/c it all-male doesn't mean that Yyou WILL NEVER SEE GIRLS. Then men that attend these fine college dosen't mean that they turn out gay or have no social skills. Women constonty flock to Wabash, and Morehouse.</p>
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<p>Wabash is a great place to go to school, or so I've heard from it's students. I orginally planed to attend Wabash; but have since decided to go to HSC. (I sypithize with those rebals:P) kinglin, if you want to attend, thats coole what did do your parents think?</p>
<p>[qoute] The mission of all-female or all-male schools is pretty much out-of-date in this century.
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<p>Based on what? Feelings or do you just wanna be cavalier?</p>
<p>the description of Deep Springs in the FISKE guide is soooo funny</p>