My daughter was very interested in Smith when she was applying. She thought women’s colleges would give her “more bang for her admissions buck” — i.e., she could go to a better women’s school than co-ed school with a given set of stats. She also liked the opportunities Smith offered for Stride recipients to get research jobs in the humanities (although we later learned that many of these jobs were clerical). She thought that going to an all-women’s college would be very empowering.