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...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...
...girls feel like they're always trying to impress the guys. They feel like they can't show how smart they are," says Hamm. "It made our school more of an intense and focused environment...
...college admission figures for students from some women's high schools support Hamm's view that single-sex schooling not only fosters women's self-confidence but also facilitates their classroom interaction. According to Karen S. Andrews, director of College counseling at Boston's Winsor School, 23% of Winsor's graduating classes during the past three years, have attended Harvard, Brown, Stanford or Yale...
While quick to point out that Ivy League admissions should not be the only measure of success for a given school, Andrews also notes that Winsor graduates tend to excel at a variety of top flight schools. She attributes this success to the self-confidence Hamm observed in her ownclassroom at Georgetown Visitation...
Katherine A. Hamm '99, co-chair of the Lowell House Committee, told the dean that a group of ten students had met to "solicit student opinion both on names and characteristics" for the mastership...