<p>This is purely out of curiosity. I've heard of all-girls schools (Barnard, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr ) which are prestigious. Are there any all-boys schools at the college level?</p>
<p>just wondering.</p>
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<p>Deep Springs is all-male.</p>
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<p>Similar to St. John’s in LC82’s link, Yeshiva has separate male and female colleges.</p>
<p>Hampden-Sydney in VA</p>
<p>Wabash and Hampton-Sydney are the only two male 4-year schools without an attached female college. Fascinating cultural phenomenon…in early 1960’s there were dozens, if not hundreds, of all-male schools. Almost all went co-ed for one reason or another in the next decade or so. Some of it was financial, but especially at the more elite schools it was at least in part due to the newly “liberated” females demanding entry into just about every institution (not just colleges) that was all-male. The fascinating part is that while they derided all-male institutions as sexist, a lot of all-female institutions felt it was perfectly fine NOT to open their doors to men. [Double standard?] Of particular ironic note were the women of Mills College in Oakland, who were literally crying, wailing, and gnashing their teeth to protest a move to go co-ed, and were widely applauded for their tenacity rather than condemned for their sexism. <a href=“http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-3999192.html[/url]”>http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-3999192.html</a></p>
<p>“The fascinating part is that while they derided all-male institutions as sexist, a lot of all-female institutions felt it was perfectly fine NOT to open their doors to men.”</p>
<p>Because there was lots of evidence that due to sexism, women are at a disadvantage at co-ed colleges. The same isn’t true for men at co-ed colleges.</p>
<p>^^^^</p>
<p>I thought the criticism about all-male colleges was because some felt that there were advantages available at those male-only schools that women needed to have access to (such as at VMI and The Citadel).</p>
<p>“Because there was lots of evidence that due to sexism, women are at a disadvantage at co-ed colleges. The same isn’t true for men at co-ed colleges.”</p>
<p>Northstarmom, the discussion here didn’t even involve co-ed colleges…just single sex-colleges. While it might be true that women were at a disadvantage at co-ed schools, and would therefore have good reason to want to have women’s colleges remain single-sex, it doesn’t follow that the all-male colleges should have to give up their single-sex status also. In other words, if women felt disadvantaged at co-ed colleges, that is an issue they should have taken up with those co-ed colleges. What sense did it make for them to demand MORE co-ed colleges (by demanding admission to previously all-male colleges)?</p>
<p>^^^^</p>
<p>Read my post…that is why there was a stink.</p>
<p>why would you attend an all male alma mater?</p>
<p>I don’t know about Hampden-Sydney, but you might want to attend Wabash for, I don’t know, it’s strong academics, easy professor accessibility, small class sizes, good grad school placement, good study abroad programs, or through-the-roof merit aid. Just small reasons.</p>
<p>Don’t advertise Wabash too much, brewerfan…women will claim having an all-male college like that gives men an unfair advantage (never mind the dozens of all-female colleges of equal quality). </p>
<p>Mom2CollegeKids: your point re Citadel, VMI, and the service acadamies is completely legit; but the “unfair advantage” angle wasn’t limited to those schools; it was also used against all sorts of all-male colleges for which there were all-female counterparts. I wouldn’t want to go to a single-sex college, and I don’t even know anybody who would. The part I still don’t get is why women in the 60’s and after seemed to make ALL all-male colleges such an emotional target (it’s amazing that they missed even Wabash and H-S). I don’t think many people would doubt that there are completely worthy reasons for women to want to got to an all-female school. Is it so outlandish to suppose that maybe there are some males who’d also prefer a single-sex college?</p>
<p>The founding act/constitution of Hampden-Sydney College reads: “This college has been founded for the benefit of the future leaders of our people.” That should prevent it from being an all-male institution.</p>
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