<p>Okay, I realize this thread has been inactive for 10 days and I may not get a lot of responses but I’ll post it here anyways:</p>
<p>My D is willing to look at pretty much all sorts of colleges- except women’s colleges. She does not have the usual objections (homophobia, craving male attention, or wanting to prove herself in the co-ed world). Her objection is that she is looking for genuine diversity in her college. She feels that by excluding men from her environment she will miss out on hearing the ‘male’ perspective- whether in discussions in class or in casual conversations in the dorm. In her search for colleges, she has been flexible about many criteria- urban vs rural, large vs small, famous vs less well known, liberal vs conservative, but she just can’t get past this objection to women’s colleges.</p>
<p>Can anyone here provide good arguments why she should not be worried about this? I would really like to have her look at Smith and Wellesley.</p>
<p>Edit: She is really serious about wanting genuine diversity. She rejected one college recently because she noticed a lot of racial/ethnic self-segregation. She is also turned off by colleges that have extreme liberal or extreme conservative student bodies. She wants an environment where people of diverse types can come together and talk to each other and contribute to each others’ development. And I guess she is afraid that not having men around will severely limit her quest for diversity.</p>