<p>Sunny17, thanks for your response. I recently visited Smith and decided that is wasn’t for me, for I think some of the same reasons you described – culture shock, atmosphere. I was really disappointed because Smith had everything I wanted, but I just couldn’t see myself there for 4 years.
Re your comment about women speaking up in math and science classes – I had kind of an ironic experience about this at Smith. I sat in on a science class, with about 40 women and 2 men students, who sat together in the front row. Of the many questions / comments in the class, well over half were from these 2 guys. So much for women-only education.</p>