College advice for an MtoF-- attending Ivy next year

[cobrat]

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cobrat, despite your usual air of authority, you clearly understand very little about the strong identity of women’s colleges. You seem to think that they are perhaps female-dominated dorms at coed college consortiums. And your information about the various college exchange programs is shaky. As pizzagirl states, the basic mission of Wellesley is women’s education. It is perfectly reasonable, IMHO, to wonder why a person who strongly identified as a man would chose to go there.

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<p>Actually, I understand the strong identity of women’s colleges as the colleges/alums perceive it…and how they actually are in practice from knowing many who attended/partook in the exchange programs I mentioned above and from my own observations from having visited/studied on some of their campuses. </p>

<p>Two very different things…one is how the college/alums and to some extent…sympathetic popular perception perceive their identity and second…the undeniable fact that male students are a part of Women’s College’s academic and larger campus life…however much those college admins/alums may want to downplay/deny that fact. </p>

<p>Speaking of Wellesley, knew dozens of MIT male students who took advantage of the Wellesley-MIT arrangement to take humanities/social science courses there if they wanted a challenge and a glimpse of the Women’s College experience. </p>

<p>By the same token, knew dozens of Wellesley students who used the same exchange to take full advantage of MIT’s strengths…including one HS classmate who took almost all of her CS major courses there because Wellesley’s offerings weren’t challenging enough for her even though she loved the Wellesley Women-centered LAC experience. </p>

<p>They also have a semester exchange plan with Dartmouth as illustrated by the unfortunate idiotic Jeremy Pham incident back in 2009. [Oh</a> Yeah? Male Student Calls Wellesley Women “Bunch Of Whores”](<a href=“http://jezebel.com/5416119/oh-yeah-male-student-calls-wellesley-women-bunch-of-whores]Oh”>http://jezebel.com/5416119/oh-yeah-male-student-calls-wellesley-women-bunch-of-whores)</p>

<p>Also, knew some male UMass, Hampshire, and Amherst alums who took advantage of the 5 college consortium to take courses at Smith and Mt. Holyoke. </p>

<p>And then there’s Barnard where it’s so common for Barnard/Columbia students to be using their respective counterpart’s academic resources, buildings, faculty, dorms, cafeterias, and more that one could easily fail to realize Barnard is actually an autonomous Women’s College…albeit in association with Columbia University.</p>