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<p>To the question at hand: can a self-defined (or parent-defined) “mainstream” kid find her tribe at Smith or at MHC as easily as at Wellesley and at Bryn Mawr. From what I have seen, yes. There is a very wide range of students at all four of these schools. While on the surface they have specific reputations (Wellesley=clean cut, BM=least academic, MHC=lots of international students, Smith=all lesbians and/or hippies), in reality, the students are much more diverse than this and are tied together only by the desire to have an all-women’s education (or by their parent’s desire for such). The one thing you increasingly find at all of these schools is a large international student population particularly students from more conservative cultures where coeducation is not accepted at all.</p>