<p>hey! so i decided to take a gander at some women's colleges, but i need to make sure they are feminist since there still is a difference. and along with that make sure that they are inclusive of all races and trans-inclusionary as well! (so basically for some of you who do recognize the term radfems). anyways im not looking to get into any discussion about this here, im just looking for some help on schools in california (= im looking to double major in political science and women's studies, and then going to law school or look for path with the UN. thanks in advance!!</p>
<p>Have you checked out Mills College?</p>
<p>Or perhaps Scripps College? </p>
<p>@EnglishLit no! i just checked it out though, how is it’s rep in general?
@snickers101 im actually strongly looking into that one and going to an informational session in august (:</p>
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<p>I do not attend Mills College or Scripps College, but just a reminder, many LACs are predominately white and the student population is primarily middle class and up. No matter where you go, there will be microagressions (or even flat out racism) and transmisogynistic feminists. I spent my first year at giant state school (UC Riverside) and while there was a great LGBTQIA resource center, there were students who could care less. Admittedly, students who attend large schools are less concerned with political correctness (or thinking before speaking) because there’s so many people
However, with that being said, I have a close friend at Scripps college. She is an Asian American student and loves the experience so far. She’s met many motivated students and Scripps has inspired her to do more with her life. Her first internship through Scripps was in DC and involved policy work.
I also applied to Scripps as a transfer student and found the campus to be beautiful and the Claremont Consortium amazing. Scripps wasn’t (possibly isn’t) accepting transfers at the time because over the last few years, they’ve over enrolled. There is a bit of a housing crisis and Scripps students are being placed in Pomona dorms (or so my friend has informed me). Scripps is amazing in many ways, but in some ways, it isn’t a “true” woman’s college experience. Both Harvey Mudd and CMC have more males than females thus giving the Claremont Consortium on whole a closer male/female ratio. I don’t know how much this would bother you. When deciding between two Seven Sister schools, proximity to males was something I looked at. I had some friends who could care less (or were queer) and some friends who cares me.
I think Mills is closer to the true woman’s college vibe and larger than Scripps (the Claremont Consortium makes up for that aspect though). Mills does seem more diverse than Scripps (although Scripps seems to have the large AAPI population) I’m not sure. Also Mills college does have a cross-register program where you can take classes at Cal. I’m heavily biased toward Scripps because a dear friend of mine attends, but both schools seem fantastic and I wish you the best of luck. </p>
<p>Mills over Scripps if you’re looking solely at how “feminist” either is—mostly because Mills is more diverse, I’d like to think. Other than that, Scripps for the consortium and beautiful campus!</p>
<p>Every California college is a feminist college.</p>
<p>Question is rather like saying you are looking for a college in California that has English majors but also offers Spanish language studies. You are not going to eliminate many.</p>
<p>We did a tour at Scripps this summer, and, as it was one of my daughter’s first, my input here is not exceptionally broad. </p>
<p>Our tour and information session emphasized the “activist” aspect of the curriculum very hard – to the point that my daughter (who has been very much an ally and proponent of equality and inclusion through her teens) was a bit put off. If you are seeking assertively inclusive attitudes in the course catalog, Scripps may have a lot to offer you. </p>
<p>You will find a fair amount of talk-but-no-action on class issues, though. It’s easy to be removed from it all on such a lush, bountiful campus (when you can pick an orange off a tree on the way from your lovely dorm room to your vegan organic dining hall meal, it’s easy to lose touch with the reality of life for many) in a well-to-do part of CA. </p>
<p>I have not visited Mills, and cannot speak to the campus environment itself, but would think that the location would lend itself to more class-oriented activism, racial diversity, and access to Queer-friendly community. I do think that Scripps enjoys a stronger academic reputation, though.</p>