[alum]

Interesting story...A friend of mine who is an alumna told me today that she has written her last check to the school. Her husband went through the same thing when he was an undergraduate 20 years ago at the formerly all-male Washington and Lee University about an hour away.

There are a LOT of moderately selective women's colleges in that part of VA all competing for the same "type" of student. Sweet Briar, Hollins, and R-MWC (and to a lesser extent Mary Baldwin)are fairly interchangable in terms of admissions stats and NOTHING like the Seven Sisters schools. I am surprised to read that R-MWC has no development office as the school has a decent size endowment ($140 million) as compared to the number of women it educates.

There are still many more all-women schools as compared to all-male schools. The only BA/BS granting, single-sex men's colleges left in the US are Wabash College (IN) and Hampden-Sydney (VA, ironically in the same vicinity as SB/R-MWC). Morehouse in Atlanta is all-male officially although I heard that Spelman women take classes there and vice versa. Deep Springs is a 2year school.