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...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...
...They have become so accustomed to speakingtheir minds, they just assume its their right todo so," Andrews says of Winsor students...
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...
Just across the street from the Clayground pottery store and right next door to Winsor Tap's Hot Lunches and Liquors, Jeffrey Curley's home was in the midst of a classic Cambridge neighborhood...