Colleges for a Feminist?

Applying to College
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<p>Howdy :)</p>

<p>Earlier I made a post about wanting schools that were strong in their political science departments.</p>

<p>However, I've made a complete 180. I've always been writing since the beginning of time. My background has encouraged me to undertake a special interest in women's rights and literature.</p>

<p>I would really love it if you could recommend colleges that have strong literature programs and offer women's studies/gender studies as at least a minor. </p>

<p>Any help would be appreciated.</p>

<p>QUICK STATS:</p>

<p>SAT I (2090) - CR: 730, M: 650, W: 710
Most difficult courseload, 12 APs
Attending a competitive highschool
Ranked in the top 10%
Decent ECs and awards.
Extremely low income.</p>

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<p>Two that I know of are Kenyon and Denison.</p>

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<p>Thank you. :]</p>

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<p>Most of the all-girls colleges would be pretty strong in women's studies I'd imagine. I'd also try Vassar College, Trinity College (CT), Connecticut College, Amherst College, Carleton College, Dickinson College, Goucher College, Middlebury College, Oberlin College, Pitzer College, Pomona College, Wellesley College, and Wheaton College to name a few.</p>

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<p>Barnard maybe.</p>

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<p>Bard
UC-Berkeley
UC-Santa Cruz
Brown
Bryn Mawr
Columbia
Connecticut College
Eugene Lang
Hampshire
Macalester
Mt Holyoke
New College of Florida
NYU
Oberlin
Reed
Smith
Vassar
Wellesley
Wesleyan</p>

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<p>Mills College, Oakland, CA</p>

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<p>Thanks everyone! Your suggestions are very helpful :)</p>

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<p>I agree with everything above. Basically most womens-only LACs.</p>

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<p>this isn't a tough decision</p>

<p>the 7 sisters... there you go.</p>

<p>vassar and smith are particularly prominent womens-oriented colleges (played key roles in women in higher education). and wellesley</p>

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<p>I would go to Smith. It's an amazing school you should check out. If you visit the campus, you'll immediately fall in love with it. You definitely see the feminist-type of environment there. Everyone there is free to express themselves.</p>

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<p>I would go to Smith. It's an amazing school you should check out. If you visit the campus, you'll immediately fall in love with it. You definitely see the feminist-type of environment there. Everyone there is free to express themselves.</p>

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<p>A lot of the posts above offer good ideas and some great schools, but I might suggest a different tack. The environments listed above reinforce a lot of the women's rights issues that are important to you. What is needed and might aid your personal development is an environment that reinforces that perspective, but not unanimously so. What I mean is look for a school that has other perspectives that are less sympathetic and work to change those attitudes. You will learn more about dealing with different types of people and you will have more opportunity to have a real and lasting impact on the institution and the people you meet there. This is an unconventional way to look at it, I know, but perhaps it is worth your consideration.</p>

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<p>The seven sister schools. My personal favorites are Wellesley and Barnard because I love the atmosphere.</p>

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<p>I wonder if there was a college made for male chauvinists.</p>

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I wonder if there was a college made for male chauvinists.

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<p>There's 8 of them ;] ::hint hint::</p>

<p>Just kidding...kinda</p>

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<p>Yeah, they went co-ed a few decades ago..</p>

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<p>A previous poster mentioned Pitzer, which I'll supplement by suggesting Scripps (<a href="http://www.scrippscollege.edu%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.scrippscollege.edu&lt;/a&gt;), the women's college in Claremont (<a href="http://www.claremont.edu%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.claremont.edu&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p>

<p>Interestingly, one of my good friends is a women's/gender studies major and a politics minor, while another one is a dual women's/gender studies and English major. All very strong programs in an environment that will both support (the women's college part) and challenge (the broader consortium) part. This isn't to suggest that the rest of the consortium wouldn't support you or that Scripps will never challenge you, obviously...it's just to note the diversity of the environment. Scripps is also a QuestBridge partner.</p>

<p>If your interests have done a 180, expect them to do so a few more times. Make sure, above all, that you go somewhere where you're not overly limited (i.e. if the worst college in the country happens to have the #1 women's studies program, I'd advice against this...grossly extreme example), and also somewhere that you can be happy at even if you change your course of study.</p>

<p>Good luck :)</p>