<p>Personally, yes. I'd love to go to Smith or Wellesley.</p>
<p>IF I were a girl I would. With Smith, there’s the Five Colleges Consortium so there are plenty of college students in the area (male included) and Wellesley there’s Boston so I wouldn’t have a problem with those 2 schools. I guess it would depend on the area haha</p>
<p>I strongly considered women’s colleges but ended up applying to only one, Scripps, which met my personal threshold for a coed social life. I would also have applied to Barnard if not for my aversion to NYC.</p>
<p>No, because I like boys. A lot ;)</p>
<p>In all seriousness, I couldn’t imagine going to a women’s college. That’s not how the real world is. I want to make friends of different races, different backgrounds, and definitley different genders.</p>
<p>It can be socially tough for a straight girl. In the old days there were all guy schools to socialize with. They are gone. In the 5 college onsrtium you have 2 all female schools, tiny Amherst, alternative Hampshire and a large state school.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t go to an all girls school for reasons similar to IMaGecko.
When I go to college I plan to stay on campus mostly as opposed to heading to the city to meet people. I would find it restrictive to be surrounded by girls for so much of my time. An all-girls school just isn’t for me.</p>
<p>Wellesley isn’t bad at all, given its proximity to Harvard and MIT. The women there get to have fun with folks who appear all too willing to oblige… Facebook tells all. =(</p>
<p>In my experience, learning and growing up in a single-sex environment all while having the other sex available for healthy social interaction is ideal. Wellesley is outstanding in this regard. </p>
<p>(Barnard is fine choice as well, though the women there are treated as second class citizens and moochers by many Columbia students.)</p>
<p>no, last time I checked, I had different equipment.</p>
<p>Sure, why not?</p>
<p>No thanks. Women in large groups scare me.</p>
<p>What ImaGecko said!</p>
<p>hahhaa never!!! I’ve thought about it but I cant imagine living with women for 4 years…<em>shudders</em>…plus my social life would suck! And i think a large majority of the girls at smith are lesbians…so no thanks LOL.</p>
<p>Maybe Barnard or Wellesley would be OK but i still wouldn’t want to go there :P</p>
<p>No. I’m a male. The schools would most likely not want guys to apply.</p>
<p>I didn’t specifically seek out women’s colleges, but I ended up applying to Smith because it had other things I wanted. I wasn’t really bothered by the all women’s thing, but I can say I was particularly attracted to it either. I’m sort of neutral on the issue, I guess. Regardless, I will instead be attending a school that has more males than females, and that’s fine with me, too.</p>
<p>All else equal, if I had to choose between a liberal arts college that was co-ed and one that was women-only, I’d take the women’s college. However, I am going to a large university. Big ponds ftw! (From the big fish little pond metaphor.)</p>
<p>An all girls secondary school has convinced me I wouldn’t survive an all female college experience.</p>
<p>I don’t think I would. As someone who has always had several close guy friends, it would be a weird adjustment for me to make. I think I could probably function pretty well in a supportive women’s environment, but honestly, I feel like girls can be so dramatic and catty that I wouldn’t want to be around all girls, all the time.</p>
<p>That being said, if a women’s college ended up being my only option and I went there, I’m sure I’d be fine. It just wouldn’t be my first choice.</p>
<p>I must point out that “a large majority of women at Smith are lesbians” is not true. A vocal minority is; you must be comfortable with all kinds of people, with all kinds of sexuality, if you go there, but lesbians do not represent the majority. One reason to go to a woman’s college is that, ironically enough, when you’re there it doesn’t matter that you’re a woman. You are a student, and people don’t make (as many) assumptions about you based on your attractiveness, demeanor, clothes, boyfriend or lack of same, conformity or lack of same. You don’t have to worry about what the guys in the class will think if you answer more questions in class than they do. Lots of women are unconcerned about that, anyway, of course, but that kind of peer pressure can be subtle but quite undermining to your ability to do what you want to do. It is very liberating just to keep guys in the social arena, and out of the classroom competition.</p>
<p>I went to an all-girls high school, but we had an all-boys high school that we associated with. There are pluses and minuses. However, I never considered an all girls college. I may have like it if it had a good relationship with a boys college (which are almost extinct these days).</p>
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<p>In my experience the women at Wellesley, anyway, are nothing like this: they are too intelligent and have too much self-respect. Most girlish misbehavior of that sort occurs in a context of trying to please or compete for the attention of males.</p>
<p>In my experience, the intellience of the women doesn’t matter. The drama and cattiness are still there, and are even worse in some ways since the women involved are more intelligent and can think of more creative ways to be dramatic and catty. Men can be total bastards, but for the most part they’re straightforward and you know where you stand with them. Women, especially in the South, will smile right in your face while they’re stabbing you in the back and see absolutely nothing wrong with this. I’d rather deal with men than women any day.</p>