<p>I encourage you to look at Smith College. It has a wonderful, supportive, caring sense of community. It’s known for academic excellence and small classes. It fits your criteria. Smith has:</p>
<p>• Terrific advising and mentoring. Available, committed professors, no TAs; many students do research with professors. Lots of papers published by undergrads.
• Academic excellence. Small classes. Many academic opportunities. Faculty are there for the undergraduates.
• Open curriculum, no core requirements, 1000 courses, 50 majors/50 minors, can design your own major.
• Smith is part of a 5-college consortium (with Amherst, Hampshire, Mt. Holyoke and Univ Mass). Can take classes at any. Free shuttle bus to get to classes at the other campuses. Buses run nights and weekends also.
• Smith is part of the 12 college exchange–students can attend a semester or year at: Dartmouth, Amherst, Vassar, Bowdoin, and others, should they want to.
• Students told us that it wasn’t hard to meet men and they did so in classes (5-college consortium), clubs, projects, organizations, parties. One student noted it was nice to be able to focus on academics and work during the week (without distraction), and then socialize on the weekends.
• Smith creates women leaders, and has a strong, involved alumni network. </p>
<p>Bottom line: check out <a href=“http://www.smith.edu/collegerelations/SpeakingofSmith-0414.pdf[/url]”>http://www.smith.edu/collegerelations/SpeakingofSmith-0414.pdf</a></p>