<p>Have just read this entire thread and find the intellectual sparring match humorous! Keil, if you want to, go ahead and attend an all-women’s college. If you don’t want to, don’t. It really is that simple. We may intellectualize this topic until we turn blue…when it comes down to “fit.” And arguing for the sake of arguing, while entertaining for some (I suppose) can come across as arrogant.</p>
<p>Single sex colleges need no justification, period. </p>
<p>Oldest daughter is in her first year at one- she is intellectually driven. Youngest daughter would never consider an all-women’s environment-she is not intellectually driven in the same way as our older daughter. So what?! Their choices don’t make either of my daughters better or lessor as human beings. </p>
<p>Each of us have gifts to be developed and must decide which college environment will best suit the flourishing of those gifts, given the information we have at hand when making the choice of which college to attend.</p>
<p>Choosing a learning environment that is best suited to oneself is very individual; good luck at Swarthmore, Keil. I have a friend whose son graduated there a number of years ago. It is a fabulous institution.</p>