<p>It seems there is an abundance of all female schools - but I'm really not aware of any all male schools (other than deep springs - and i wouldn't really count that b/c it's sooo tiny). It also appears to me that most colleges and universities have over 50% female population. As the mother of boys - this concerns me. Anyone have any insights into this phenomenon??
Also, I'd be interested to know of any all male schools out there.
Thanks!</p>
<p>Wabash- wonderful all-male school in Indiana</p>
<p>Besides Wabash, the only other all-male, 4-year school is Hampden-Sydney in Virginian. Good reputation, beautiful (if somewhat isolated) location.</p>
<p>There are also the state military institutions of VMI and The Citadel that are now co-ed but still have an extremely small female population.</p>
<p>There's also Morehouse College, which is a predominately African-American college.</p>
<p>shiraz - if you want your sons to be in the gender majority, I can see how the current proportions at some schools would concern you. However:
at such schools, it can provide an admissions advantage to your sons, as most schools very much want to even out the ratio.
depending on what field your boys are interested in, they may find they are in the majority at certain schools or departments within universities. For example, many schools with female majorities have strong male majorities in Engineering schools/departments.</p>
<p>thanks for your responses all!
It just seems unfair to me that there are all these great all-women's schools out there even today, when women appear be in the majority (in some cases a LARGE majority) at schools we have looked at.</p>
<p>I can understand why these women's colleges were created years ago...but times have changed.
I can remember the stink which arose a few months ago when Wells college opened its doors to guys. I'd like to see them all follow in their path...
I really think it's time.</p>
<p>NO!NO!NO! (for me @ least) </p>
<p>I visited HSC in May.</p>
<p>Men and Women learn differently, for some its good not to have distractions (like me!) </p>
<p>My parents, by no means pushed All0Male onto me, i looked for it. In a way I think that they are dissappointed, that im looking into applying but i really think it a good school choice.</p>
<p>only 1,000 guys.</p>
<p>10:1</p>
<p>All-Female schools within driving distance= best of both worlds!:)</p>
<p>As mentioned above, engineering departments tend to have few girls still. Out of the 7 schools I applied to, Olin was the only school that had a good gender balance in an engineering program.</p>
<p>as a student at an all-women's college, I strongly disagree with the idea that all colleges should "open their doors to guys" because it's unfair that "that there are all these great all-women's schools out there even today," when in your mind women have achieved educational parity. </p>
<p>First of all, not all women have the same educational opportunities that men do--for example, roughly 10% of the student body at my college are internationals, many of whom come from countries with strong gender bias towards men. Female high school students in the US and abroad disproportionately shoulder domestic tasks which can limit their ability to participate in extracurriculars or devote enough time to study. </p>
<p>Second, men aren't losing out on spots in co-ed schools because women are there. if anything, a male applying to a co-ed institution is more desirable than a female with the same stats, because he is rarer. A greater percentage of high school girls take ACTs and SATs than high school boys, and girls apply to college in greater number. And having women's colleges probably helps men applying to co-ed schools, because it siphons off some female applicants.</p>
<p>finally, as Wabash said, some people do better at single-sex institutions. I know I could have been happy at a co-ed school, and I applied to only one women's college of the nine applications I made. I still like being in co-ed environments and function effectively in them. But a women's college was the right place for me, just like a men's college might be the place for Wabash, and just because you think it's "unfair" doesn't mean it's not good that people have these options.</p>
<p>stacy, Which one did you attend?</p>
<p>i go to smith.</p>
<p>How is the FinAId ? </p>
<p>I know HSC is going to cost me lots of $$$$</p>
<p>stacy,et al. </p>
<p>" a male applying to a co-ed institution is more desirable than a female with the same stats, because he is rarer. " </p>
<p>There are males and then there are males. I would wonder how many males who are wannabe females attending schools that are coed but traditionally female?</p>
<p>wabash,<br>
smith says it'll meet all your demonstrated need (calculated by a federal formula). smith's done a great job including lower-income students--one of the best in the nation among selective LACs, but it's still a challenge for just about everyone. i'm lucky to have been offered a good on-campus job (which I do in addition to spot jobs on campus, babysitting, and dogwalking for spending money) and merit aid, my parents are helping me, and I've had good-paying summer jobs. </p>
<p>itstoomuch, what are you talking about?</p>
<p>just wondering. it doesn't mean a thing.</p>
<p>Wabash, HSC has a reputation for being pretty generous with financial aid. </p>
<p>itstoomuch -- congratulations. Very few comments make me stop and think "Man! That was an idiotic statement".</p>
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It just seems unfair to me that there are all these great all-women's schools out there even today, when women appear be in the majority (in some cases a LARGE majority) at schools we have looked at . . .Wells college opened its doors to guys. I'd like to see them all follow in their path...
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<p>Some people believe that these places are great because they are single-sex and provide a unique environment, appealing to a self-select group of students who made a very deliberate choice. </p>
<p>If they became co-ed, their niche would change. They may still be special, but not as unique, and they would attract a different sort of student. They would be different places. Some of them might not have any niche at all, but would become just another of the hundreds of small liberal arts colleges which feel somewhat indistinguishable to outsiders.</p>
<p>There used to be more all-male colleges out there, but too few students wanted to attend them. Fortunately, your son still has some choices available if he really wants an all-male environment (and they've already been mentioned here). </p>
<p>For all that, I'm not sure the slight imbalance between men and women on most co-ed campuses campuses really makes that much difference to the college experience of the students there.</p>
<p>With the exception of Penn and Cornell, the Ivy League used to be all male schools. Some of the Ivy League schools had "sister schools" which offered comparable education to their male counterparts. Before Brown became coeducational, Pembroke was their women's college. Now its a center for teaching and research on women within the Brown umbrella. Today, men and women have equal opportunities for admission to study at Brown. </p>
<p>Harvard's sister college was Radcliffe. Radliffe had a long history from being one of the Seven Sister colleges to being entirely merged with Harvard University in 1999, with Radcliffe remaining as an Institute for Advanced Study. Just like Brown, men and women also have equal opportunities at Harvard. </p>
<p>Columbia University is one example I can think of where women have an extreme and unfair advantage. Barnard, also one of the original seven sister schools remained all women, after failed negotiations between Columbia College and Barnard to create a merger like Radcliffe/Harvard. After these failed negotiations (1983) Columbia started admitting women (thereby taking away half of its slots for men), and retained Barnard as a separate womens college. Barnard women also have the opportunity to study at the Columbia campus, which gives women many more avenues for admission to study at Columbia than men have.</p>
<p>St. Johns in Collegeville, Minnesota is a private all male Catholic school. It does have a neighboring sister school St. Benedicts too.</p>
<p>Wabash, can you give some details on your visit to HSC. I have a rising junior S who wants to play basketball but doesn't think he's DI--said he'd rather be recognized for his brains than his basketball. HSC might be a great fit but really need to know more. The average freshman class would be about 5 times his HS graduating class. Took the SAT II chem this year and got a 700. Hasn't taken the SAT or ACT.
What did you like best? What did you like least?
Isn't Sweet Briar close by?</p>