http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2016/04/sweet-briar-womens-colleges-relevance
I loved this piece
I did too. Love to see Sweet Briar listed again. I heard that last year they got more applications than they’d had in the previous fifty years (year by year, not cummulatively). I’m sad that Agnes Scott was missing from the article. What a great school! I learned about Hollins. That looks like a hidden gem, kind of where Sweet Briar was a few years ago. Now everyone’s heard of Sweet Briar! Hollins looks like it’s had so many great alumnae and has a very open policy about inclusion. But it’s also based in the South so you get that sense of tradition, I suspect. I love the Mills part of the article too. They just got a new president who hasn’t started formally yet, I think. I think that happens in June. But already they’re getting the word out about the hidden prize of Mills. I mean–not hidden to everyone who follows women’s colleges! It could hardly be more famous! But hidden from the people focused on the same-old, same-old schools in the northeast. Oh well, Mills, Sweet B, And Agness Scott is there for the rest of us! And then there’s Hollins. What I love about women’s schools is that there really are no barriers for a young woman to try out things that have been stereotyped as traditinally boy territory, like math, computer science, engineering and the hard sciences. Sweet Briar has engineering with like eight students in a class. Can you imagine taking engineering as a tutorial? What an opportunity. Agnes Scott does the same for astrophysics. What???
Agnes Scott is a great school. It was a very close second on my D’s list. The campus is beautiful and the professors are knowledgeable and very approachable.
Thanks for confirming this about Agnes Scott. Everything I see on their website looks great.