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Before they chose between applying to Wellesley or Harvard, Smith or Amherst, many women students already had to decide whether or not to go co-ed--in elementary and secondary school...
Women at Harvard who attended all-female schools at home say this decision was largely made by parents and guardians. However, in many ways the environment in which they grew up--the availability of educational resources and the quality of comparable co-ed schools--also influenced this choice...
...think the concentration in my high school was a lot more on academics than [in] many co-ed public high schools," Jacqueline C. Hamm '01 says. According to Hamm, who spent four years at the all-female Georgetown Visitation High School in Washington D.C., learning can appeal more to women when they don't feel like they have to worry about appealing...
...many female graduates of single-sex schoolshere at Harvard say they gained invaluableconfidence and interpersonal skills during theirhigh school years that they may not have found ata co-ed institution...
Lewis says that in her own time at Winsor, sheforged friendships that are typical of those atthe most successful women's schools--and nearlyirreplaceable in co-ed classrooms. She says that anelement of closeness eludes women outside of thesame-sex educational system...