<p>Oh, I agree you should decide for yourself. And I don’t think EVERY woman wants to go to a woman’s college. I sure did not want to go to a girl’s high school. But in retrospect, it was tremendously liberating personally, and preparing me for the world.</p>
<p>Bryn Mawr graduates 50 times more female physics majors than the national average (at a paltry 3% of the graduating class). 9.7 % of All Bryn Mawr graduates end up with a PhD in either the sciences or engineering. </p>
<p>Among all colleges and universities, Mount Holyoke ranks eighth (tied with Stanford and Wellesley) in the number of graduates who earned U.S. doctorates in physics from 1966 to 2004; ninth in chemistry; and sixteenth in biology. </p>
<p>The US government did a study called [[Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering]] [nsf.gov</a> - Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering: Degrees Data - US National Science Foundation (NSF)<a href=“I%20love%20that%20title”>/url</a> Psychology majors were 77% female in 2008. Engineering majors were 18.5% female in 2008. </p>
<p>In 2008 CNN reported engineers starting saleries, with a BA, averaged over 56,000.00 per year. </p>
<p>According to Forbes in 2008 if you had a masters in psychology and 10 to 20 years experience you earned 54,000.00 on average. </p>
<p>You do the math, someone is cheating women.</p>
<p><a href="http://colleges..com/guides/college-selection/rescollwomens.aspx%5B/url%5D">http://colleges..com/guides/college-selection/rescollwomens.aspx](<a href=“http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/degrees.cfm#bachelor]nsf.gov”>http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/degrees.cfm#bachelor)</a></p>
<p>•One-third of the women board members of the Fortune 1000 companies are women’s college graduates.
•Women’s college graduates are twice as likely to earn Ph.D.s. A higher percentage go on to study in the sciences and attend medical school.
•Of Business Week’s 50 highest ranking women in corporate America, 30 percent are women’s college graduates.
•Of 61 women members of Congress, 20 percent attended women’s colleges.</p>
<p>Some famous women’s college graduates include: </p>
<p>•Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
•Diane Sawyer - Host of ABC’s “Good Morning America”
•Madeleine Albright - First woman to be named U.S. Secretary of State</p>
<p>More than 90 percent of students who attend a women’s college state that they would make the same choice again</p>
<p>Not only that, you have the freedom do be smart, silly, geeky, stupid, make mistakes, have a bad hair day, wear the ugliest and most comfortable stuff in your closet and build a community with other wonderful, intelligent women. It really can be a utopia for the right person.</p>
<p>If it’s not your cup of tea, it’s not your cup of tea. But it’s worth considering.</p>