<p>With the exception of Penn and Cornell, the Ivy League used to be all male schools. Some of the Ivy League schools had “sister schools” which offered comparable education to their male counterparts. Before Brown became coeducational, Pembroke was their women’s college. Now its a center for teaching and research on women within the Brown umbrella. Today, men and women have equal opportunities for admission to study at Brown. </p>
<p>Harvard’s sister college was Radcliffe. Radliffe had a long history from being one of the Seven Sister colleges to being entirely merged with Harvard University in 1999, with Radcliffe remaining as an Institute for Advanced Study. Just like Brown, men and women also have equal opportunities at Harvard. </p>
<p>Columbia University is one example I can think of where women have an extreme and unfair advantage. Barnard, also one of the original seven sister schools remained all women, after failed negotiations between Columbia College and Barnard to create a merger like Radcliffe/Harvard. After these failed negotiations (1983) Columbia started admitting women (thereby taking away half of its slots for men), and retained Barnard as a separate womens college. Barnard women also have the opportunity to study at the Columbia campus, which gives women many more avenues for admission to study at Columbia than men have.</p>