<p>RLT, you're right...my frat would have been GDI. But you touch upon a point that is very salient in lots of areas: reptuation vs. reality. It takes some work to tease out the distinction and, on the questions that matter to me, I'd like to think my batting average is better than .800.</p>
<p>PF, "small, nice, and reasonably priced for NYC." Ah...the third point is totally irrelevant. You may think they're small, nice...I'd say they're dingy and cramped. I know what I'm comparing them to...what are <em>you</em> comparing them to?</p>
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If you look for females in the Fortune 500, you find lots of women's college grads....and virtually none from the well-known LACs. Try authors, playwrights...actually you can try virtually any category you like: you take the grads of the four remaining all-female Seven Sisters schools, and apparently they must be doing something right, whether they were straight, lesbian, LUGs, or questioning.
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And this is more salient, imo, than all the tempest in a teapot about how who views whom's anatomy. Smith/Wellesley/Barnard/Bryn Mawr are doing <em>something</em> very right. I wouldn't have thought that my D would go to a womens college but I'm now very glad she did. Of the four, she applied and was accepted to three...Smith happened to be the best fit for <em>her</em> and given another student with different criteria, the decision could very well have been different. But there is something tremendous going on at the schools.</p>
<p>I'm not flush at the moment but I think I'll wager a C-note that Smith doesn't go co-ed anytime in the next 25 years.</p>
<p>BJM8, regarding Bio, I don't know a lot, but it was one of the majors my D considered...probably her #5 choice...and I do seem to recall that Smith has one of the leading academics in DNA sequencing on the Bio staff. Also, they're pouring a <em>ton</em> of money into the sciences: facilities, faculty, aid to entice science students. I suspect your D would have a ton of research opportunities, STRIDE or no.</p>
<p>I think some of the apparent conflict between Mini & RLT is more apparent than real but then I'm used to Mini's posting style and hot buttons. :) </p>
<p>Fwiw, RLT, I think Mini's point about binge drinking stats has some real relevance to the Smith experience because, while there is some binge drinking, it's a lot less than many other schools and I think it's low enough below some threshhold that both the social and academic environment are improved by it.</p>