All-Women's College?

Question

Has anyone gone to an all-women's school? What did you like/dislike about it?

As a high school senior, I've started to narrow down my lists of what colleges I'd like to apply to. Although I intend to apply to 10 (competition will be intense), I have a smaller list of colleges I'd really like to get into.

One of these schools is almost perfect for me. It's a teeny little liberal arts school (hardly more than 700 students) with a lot of majors and minors that interest me, especially foreign languages and ethnic and women's studies. I have a good change of getting in, and every source I've consulted tells me the teachers really care about students, etc. It sounds like a wonderful environment, not to mention that it's not far from San Francisco.

But there's one problem: It's an all-women's school.

I'm not concerned about dating; that can wait for after college. But how easy is it to have male *friends* at a single-s*x school?

Answer 1

A good friend of mine attended an all girls school but she didn't seem entirely fond of it. She wound up transferring to a coed school after 2 years.

Answer 2

I know women who competed in gymnastics on the team of an all women's school.  They did not really choose an all-women's school, but went because they got a scholarship.  They had no trouble finding men to date, because there was another co-ed College nearby.  They definitely liked the small class size, etc.  If the College is in a small isolated town, you may get bored.

It's best to go for the school that has the classes you want to take and has small classes.  I went to a large State Uni for a while and then got a scholarship to a smaller, but well-known private school.  I loved and blossomed in the small school.  One thing that they say is good about all girl unis is that women step up into leadership roles, that they might tend to step back from and let a man do.  You may have more leadership opportunities at a small all girls school, that you would miss at a larger coed school.

Answer 3

I attended an all-women's school; it was a great experience.

Answer 4

I would say don't go for it. The court's are starting to crack down on sexist all girl college's and schools.

Feminist's are slowly losing control of the court's...

     Feminist's are up in arm's about all male school's or college's but seem to think all female schools are acceptable... How interesting..

Answer 5

The reason there were all-women colleges was because women couldn't get into the men's colleges so they got their own. It's no different than the black colleges that were established in some southern states. Black people weren't allowed either.

Answer 6

In the past, you had an all male college near a all female college. But  both all s*x colleges are becoming obsolete.

Answer 7

From my experience, the one thing a womens college is not short of is male visitors. Just go to a party at a sorority house in an all womens college. You'd be surprised how many men you'd find there. They all show up thinking they are Einsteins, as if no other guy has thought partying at an all girl school before.

Answer 8

Don't do it man, women have never invented sh*t, you should go to  a college that has males! you never know on their backs, you might actually accomplish something :-D

Answer 9

My cousin lived in a women's college when she went to uni, and loved it.

She said it was a lot like living at home, but with the freedom of being at uni.

The things she liked were that she didn't have to worry about guys she didn't know walking in on her, she could study all day in her pyjamas if she wanted to, she could go home after a hard day and relax without feeling the need to be nice to a bunch of guys she didn't know.

At her college she could have visitors and never had any shortage of male friends or boyfriends, and also made lots of good girl mates as well.

The uni she attended was co-ed, though, it was just the college that was girls only.

It does seem to me though that in a smaller place, with more focus on the sorts of studies you are interested in, you will have more chance to explore the things that interest you and figure in your future plans.

There's also the possibility of making a fairly wide social acquaintance in a small place, which is not always so possible in a larger place where people tend to hive off into their own interest groups. This is really helpful for networking throughout your working life.

If you find you hate it, you could probably change further down the line, or do some post grad studies in a larger co-ed institution, lots of people are pretty mobile nowadays around changing universities and directions, when they need to.

Cheers :-)