<p>Are they as bad as they sound?</p>
<p>I'm a guy and during my college "hunt" I have come across one or two schools that seem like they'd be a fit for me except for one small detail....there are no women on campus!</p>
<p>Now as much as I love my fellow man...the occasional woman is VERY welcome thought.</p>
<p>So any thoughts or insights?</p>
<p>I would kill myself.</p>
<p>The fact that you are actually considering it means that it’s probably fine for you. Me? I’d never entertain the thought.</p>
<p>I’m having the same issue except I’m a girl. My favorite school was Bryn Mawr, but I’ve gone to an all-girls school from K-12 and I’m just not sure it’s the best environment. Sigh.</p>
<p>Many of my Bryn Mawr friends went to all-girls primary and secondary schools and are completely enamored with BMC. Don’t discount it! :)</p>
<p>I’m probably not going to go to the school, Wabash College, since I need to have a college with girls.</p>
<p>Are they any girls on campus or near by?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t mind if there was some large university around.</p>
<p>As a current Mt. Holyoke student (oldest women’s college), I felt obliged to respond to this post.
I went to public, co-ed schools from K-12 and have absolutely loved my time at Mt. Holyoke. I think the single-sex colleges and universities attract a certain type of student, and it is up to you to decide if they are for you. I highly encourage you to visit before you decide to (or not to) apply.</p>
<p>Womens colleges were out of the question for me until a couple years too late to consider them. Now I really wish I had, I would have loved it. I went to a standard co-ed public school growing up. I was just really closed minded about a single sex environment. </p>
<p>I would be looking to see if there are other colleges nearby or what kind of a city the school is in, because you’re right, being completely isolated from the opposite sex is not ideal. But they don’t necessarily need to be your classmates for you to see them.</p>
<p>I am sure that they are good for some people (staying focused, etc.), but I would not really want to go to one. I would discount any single-sex college on that basis.</p>
<p>I have spent the greater half of my years of education in a single-sex school: I see no reason to continue that in college.</p>
<p>lame…</p>
<p>what is the point of a single sex college? Most people go to lecture and mind their own business. What difference does it make if your classmates are male or female?</p>
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<p>Certain type of student? You mean gay?</p>
<p>Have you ever actually been in a single sex environment, Whiskey?</p>
<p>For me, the desire to go to a single sex school has absolutely nothing to do with dating. The environments at the particular schools I looked at were very different from the standard co-ed university experience. For some people that is not desirable, for some it is.</p>
<p>Of course I have. I’m an engineering major.</p>
<p>But seriously, why do you want a single sex environment? Obviously I was joking with the gay comment, but I do imagine a bunch of whack jobs attending those schools. And if those are ‘your people’ then good on you I guess.</p>
<p>Whiskey7 is right. No normal guy goes to an all male college. Simple as that. Argue all you want. Just the way it is.</p>
<p>I don’t think any normal (and I don’t mean “bros”) guy would go to a single-sex college BECAUSE it’s a single sex college, but maybe I could see a guy going to one in spite of that. Maybe.</p>
<p>No, not really. There’s plenty of non-“bros and hoes” co-ed colleges where you won’t be constantly surrounded by other dudes. The only way I’d have ever even considered it was if it were a small college in a huge city.</p>
<p>Actually no, not even then. Learning how to interact with a diverse group of people, including those of another gender, in a quasi-professional environment is an important part of someone’s emotional and professional growth. That and girls are pretty. Pretty girls are pretty anyway.</p>
<p>“Bros and hos” are irrelevant. You can find plenty of schools without this. Or you can even go to a school that has it, use your big boy social skills, and choose to ignore it (which you probably would anyway, because of the very fact that you are considering an all male college). In the 21st century I see no reason that one needs to isolate themselves from any type of person. Because guess what? When they get out into the real world, you are actually going to have to find a job, have a social life, etc. Oh and guess what else? A wife! How are you going to have any dating skills at an all male college?</p>
<p>One thing to think about is how isolated the single-sex college is. Bryn Mawr, which has been mentioned, is a short walk from Haverford and quite close to Villanova and within miles of the other 100 schools in the Philly area. Barnard is across the street from Columbia and in the middle of Manhattan. Other schools are not so close to other social circles.</p>
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I had a sort of similar problem with Smith.</p>
<p>I’d jump off a bridge if I were only around girls at school. Too much drama. And guys are more chill.</p>
<p>If there are schools with girls nearby, don’t worry about it. </p>
<p>And to whomever said you won’t date anyone if you go to a single sex school, I wen to an all boys school and both of my exes went to all girls schools.</p>