Sweet Briar closing

[Sciencewoman]

I remember getting brochures from Sweet Briar when I was in high school, and being a bit lured in. If I recall correctly, they had an early college admissions program (in lieu of finishing high school) for gifted students.

[alum]

Now who will the boys of Hampden-Sydney date?

So many single-sex schools all over the country have had to fold or to remain viable go coed or seek non-traditional students. Both my mother's both grandmothers', and one grandfather graduated from single-sex schools that are now coed, one relatively recently, the others a couple of decades ago.