<p>A man is certainly able to apply for admission at Smith, he just wouldn’t be accepted. As a private insititution, Smith is able to apply whatever admission standards it chooses. Now, public women’s colleges (there used to be a lot of these, but there are only a few left) actually do have to allow men to enroll, but they can keep as their mission statement that they are institutions of higher learning focused on women. There’s an interesting paper about that that you can read here: [Archived:</a> Women’s Colleges in the United States: History, Issues, and Challenges](<a href=“http://www2.ed.gov/offices/OERI/PLLI/webreprt.html]Archived:”>http://www2.ed.gov/offices/OERI/PLLI/webreprt.html), I pulled it off of the wikipedia website for women’s colleges. </p>
<p>I’m not sure how exactly it works vis a vis federal student aid, but presumably since that’s awarded to the students, rather than to the instution itself, there’s a legal work around.</p>