Seven Sisters schools
The Seven Sisters schools are American colleges who organized in 1927 to better promote all-women education. These are:
- Barnard College (New York, New York) adjacent to Columbia University.
- Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania)
- Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, Massachusetts)
- Radcliffe College (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
- Smith College (Northampton, Massachusetts)
- Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, New York)
- Wellesley College (Wellesley, Massachusetts)
Not all of the Seven Sisters still constitute as all-female colleges. Vassar began accepting men in 1969. In 1963, Harvard College assumed joint responsibility with Radcliffe over Radcliffe undergraduates, and in 1999 Radcliffe College was dissolved and Harvard assumed full responsibility over the affairs of female undergraduates. Radcliffe is now an Institute for Advanced Study in women's studies, and part of Harvard University.
