Best All-Women's College for Premeds?!

b_r_um
Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:37:05 +0000

I did check my facts. I stated that Bryn Mawr’s science productivity *rate/i is higher than any other women’s college. Bryn Mawr has also produced a greater number of science PhDs than Mount Holyoke in the last decade, as has Wellesley. Mount Holyoke only comes out on top if you start counting in 1966. Seems that Mount Holyoke has lost some steam since then.

You avoided answering my question about class sizes. How frequently are students shut out of classes in order to keep the class sizes small? Most advanced math and science classes at Bryn Mawr naturally enroll fewer than 12 students, but the popular classes can have up to 40 students. If everyone’s favorite classes were capped at 12 students, most students would never get to take them, which would seem rather unfortunate.



Edit: I just checked Mount Holyoke’s schedule of classes and I was relieved to see that most classes were not capped at 12 students. Here are some examples:

Molecular Biology: 130
Protein Biochm & Cell Metabol: 40
Chemical Thermodynamics: 32
Intro to Nano Science & Techn: 20
Advanced Electromagnetic Theory: 25
Operating Systems: 20
Mathematical Finance: 30

Students at Mount Holyoke actually do get to take the classes they want and need to take :)