Colleges That Allow Only One Ethic group/Gender

<p>I always thought they were somewhat hypocritical since most seem to preach equal rights yet segregate themselves from people from other ethic groups or genders. I suppose the best examples are all-blacks and all-girls schools. An all-whites school would immediately be deemed racist while an all-boys school would be called sexists. </p>

<p>Yet, there are also others that say that after all the troubles women and other minorities have been through they deserve their own schools. </p>

<p>So what are your views? Like, dislike, could care less? I'm more of a neutral person on this but given an option I don't think I'll attend a school where everyone's my gender or belongs to my ethic group. Or better yet. If you've been to one how was your experience?</p>

<p>Wabash is the only school I have heard of that accepts men( particulary white ) only. I know some black who choose to attend HCBU because there first generation, low-income, and they need support from other high-acheiving blacks. To me I think it makes sense to attend a college where you feel most comfortable</p>

<p>I like the idea of “ethic groups.” You could have “hard-working,” “lazy,” “scrupulous to a fault,” etc. :)</p>

<p>I think its completely ridiculous to not let someone into a college because of their race or gender. I have a few friends who go to Wellesley and its really stupid that they want to go to such a sexist school.</p>

<p>I don’t have a problem with them on the basis of tradition, I guess, and the fact that there are plenty of alternatives for me. Although I am interested in Vassar, so I guess I could consider a previously all-girls school that went coed.</p>

<p>I’ve never seen the women’s colleges as places where people go when they’ve faced discrimination. Women of course have faced sexism, but I’ve just never heard them argued for in that context. It has always just seemed like a traditional camaraderie sort-of-thing. Colleges these days need a “claim to fame,” and the traditional women’s colleges and all-black colleges probably could be reduced to much less if they weren’t notable in those respects.</p>

<p>HBCUs aren’t 100% black anymore. The majority of their populations are indeed black students, but they’re not going to refuse to admit someone because they’re white/latino/asian/etc. I wouldn’t really call all women’s colleges discrimination…they were made for a reason, and they can continue on with that tradition if they’d like; it’s perfectly legal. There are all boys high schools and all girls high schools…who cares? It’s not discrimination. I’m not offended by all male colleges like Morehouse, Deep Springs, etc. People trying to make all women’s colleges or HBCUs seem sexist/racist are misguided…that’s just not the case.</p>

<p>It’s not racist, sexist, or any kind of -ist you can think of. They are private colleges, they can do what they want. It’s called support and identification with people you can extremely relate to.</p>

<p>I don’t have a problem with those schools. They’re private colleges. Some women want to go to an all-girls college. There isn’t anything wrong with that. There are basically only three main men’s schools in the country, so that’s a much less popular option.</p>

<p>I feel the same way about black schools. And FYI, you can apply and attend a black school despite not being black. In fact, I know of many students who are white and go to black schools because they receive large diversity scholarships.</p>

<p>As far as single gender education goes, there have been studies done that suggest that students who learn in a single-gender environment perform better in school. My sister goes to a public charter school, and each grade has a Boy’s class and a Girl’s class, because that’s part of their philosophy. They had a 96% pass rate in 5th grade math this year on the state exams, so I suppose its working out for them.</p>

<p>This is a silly argument. All-male prep schools are very common, nobody’s calling them sexist. The purpose of women’s colleges aren’t to say “na na, you men can’t come in”. There are many different reasons why someone would want to go to one, including camaraderie, the desire to be in an environment catered specifically to you, wanting a different kind of social experience, etc. It has nothing to do with thinking girls are better than boys. </p>

<p>As far as I know, there are no scores of males who are protesting at not being “allowed” into Smith or Bryn Mawr. No more than the thousands of CCers freaking out over being denied acceptance into so-and-so school for XYZ random reason. Entrance into a private school clearly isn’t a right. </p>

<p>And

really just shows a total lack of understanding as to what these schools are all about.</p>

<p>Hmm. I didn’t intend to make this into a debate. I’ve read a few articles about it and thought it would make an interesting thread to hear people’s opinions on the matter, especially after remembering a class discussion about it. </p>

<p>A lot of the “minorities” thought it would be amazing since some felt that there would be more understanding among each other and less feelings of inferiority along with less accusations of racism. This one was the most debatable one in class. Some approved but many didn’t.</p>

<p>The girls felt that an all-girls school would be interesting to temporarily try to see if they liked it. They felt that despite more cliques there would be more of a sisterhood feeling and thought that there would also be less competitions to see who’s “prettier” to impress boys. Though, many of the boys that it was ridiculous and said they themselves would hate going to an all-boys school. Many actually proposed the idea of crashing and e-mailing complaints but those are the beliefs of only one small percentage. </p>

<p>The rest of the class discussion was basically what I mentioned in my first post. There was more of it but it didn’t involve the main topic so I didn’t add it in. I personally think it’s a bit strange but accept some people feel comfortable in attending them seeing as they’re the some as Baptist, Christian, Catholic, etc. private schools. Though with private religious schools it’s easier to lie about your religion.</p>