Women-friendly campuses

walkinghome
Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:47:50 +0000

I was thinking about this thread and started questioning if I was more concerned about safety or anything gender specific with my daughter more then my son after I had posted that there wasn’t much difference. I think that with my daughter, like a lot of first child experiences, EVERYTHING about looking at colleges was new and important.

My daughter wanted a college with an excellent chance of a study abroad, challenging program, education certificate that would work in PA, and diverse student body. Son wanted some computer science/IT majors (this changed after acceptances came back), liberal arts, no rural campuses, nice dorms. I had no idea that he cared about dorms until he came back from an overnight at Allegheny and gave small dorms as one thing he didn’t like. So, those things were priorities but I don’t think they were gender specific.