Get Your Chances of Admission at Top Women’s Colleges

For women who are interested in attending a single-sex college, the U.S. boasts some fantastic options. The top women’s colleges include Barnard, Bryn Mawr, St. Benedict, Mount Holyoke, Scripps, Smith and Wellesley.

Each women’s college has different admissions criteria and standards, so an applicant’s chance of admission can vary significantly from college to college.   If you’re curious about which top women’s colleges you’re more likely to get into, Go4Ivy can calculate your chances of admission, so you can make confident decisions about where to apply.

Get your chances of admission report now. Or, if you're still researching colleges and narrowing down your college list, you can find additional information about the top women's colleges below including location, acceptance rate, admissions requirements and more....

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Barnard College

3009 Broadway 
New York, NY 10027
(212) 854-2014
www.barnard.edu

• Acceptance Rate: 24%
• Enrollment: 2,500 undergraduates
• Most Popular Majors:
  • Social Sciences–30%
  • Visual/Performing Arts–12%
  • Psychology–10%
• Admissions Requirements:
  SAT and SAT Subject Tests or ACT with writing, essay

Bryn Mawr College

101 North Merion Avenue
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
(610) 526-5152
www.brynmawr.edu

• Acceptance Rate: 40%
• Enrollment: 1,300 undergraduates
• Most Popular Majors:
  • Physical Sciences–24%
  • Mathematics–12%
  • Foreign Languages–10%
• Admissions Requirements: Essay

Mount Holyoke College

50 College Street
South Hadley, MA 01075
(413) 538-2023
www.mtholyoke.edu

• Acceptance Rate: 55%
• Enrollment: 2,200 undergraduates
• Most Popular Majors:
  • Social Sciences–29%
  • Biology–11%
  • English–7%
• Admissions Requirements:
  Essay

Scripps College

1030 Columbia Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711
(909) 621-8149
www.scrippscollege.edu

• Acceptance Rate: 27%
• Enrollment: 960 undergraduates
• Most Popular Majors:
  • Social Sciences–19%
  • Biology–13%
  • Ethnic Studies– 9%
• Admissions Requirements:
  SAT or ACT with writing, essay

Smith College

7 College Lane
Northhampton, MA 01063
(413) 585-2500
www.smith.edu

• Acceptance Rate: 42%
• Enrollment: 2,600 undergraduates
• Most Popular Majors:
  • Social Sciences–24%
  • Biology–11%
  • Foreign Languages–10%
• Admissions Requirements:
  Essay

College of St. Benedict

37 South College Avenue
Saint Joseph, MN 56374
(320) 363-5011
www.csbsju.edu

• Acceptance Rate: 82%
• Enrollment: 2,000 undergraduates
• Most Popular Majors:
  • English–15%
  • Business/Marketing–12%
  • Psychology–12%
• Admissions Requirements:
  SAT or ACT, essay

Wellesley College

106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02481
(781) 283-2270
www.wellesley.edu

• Acceptance Rate: 30%
• Enrollment: 2,100 undergraduates
• Most Popular Majors:
  • Social Sciences–24%
  • Biology–10%
  • Ethnic Studies–10%
• Admissions Requirements:
  SAT and SAT Subject Tests or ACT with writing, essay

The Benefits of Attending a Women’s College

There are pros and cons to attending a single-sex college, but advocates of female colleges cite numerous academic, professional and personal advantages.  The results of research by the Women's College Coalition elaborate on the positive experience of attending a women's college:

• Students participate more fully in and out of class.
• Students report greater satisfaction with their college experience than their coed counterparts by nearly all measures including academically, developmentally and personally.
• Students tend to choose traditionally male disciplines like the sciences.
• Students develop higher levels of self-esteem than other achieving women in coed institutions. After two years in coed institutions, women have been shown to have lower levels of self-esteem than when they entered college.
• Graduates of women's colleges are more than twice as likely as graduates of coed colleges to receive doctorate degrees and to enter medical school and receive doctorates in the natural sciences.
• Have a higher percentage of majors in economics, math and life science today than men at coed colleges.
• Nearly half the graduates have earned advanced degrees and 81% have continued their education beyond college.
• Women's college students are more likely to graduate.
• They are more successful in careers; that is, they tend to hold higher positions, are happier and earn more money.

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