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Originally Posted by alum
Unfortunately it's even harder to persuade smart young men to see the benefits of a single-sex education than it is to persuade smart young women to go to a women's college. That's why there are so few all-male colleges and why they are not terribly selective. The majority have gone co-ed.
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I'd say that's
one reason that there are so few all male colleges, but I don't think its the main reason.
25 years ago, there were fewer than 10 all male schools in the country, and at least two of them were state military academies (VMA and The Citadel). Most all male schools, public and private, went co-ed in the 60s and 70s, and they did so not because it was that hard to persuade smart young men to go to an all male school but because society as a whole was demanding that the advantages of these schools be available to women as well as men. I'm not saying that going co-ed was a bad thing altogether, although I can wish that more of the all-male private schools had stayed that way. But the reality is that there was never the societal pressure on all-female schools to go co-ed that there was on all-male schools.
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