Which Seven Sister do you attend? Ca. 1952

I've read that these colleges all had different "personalities" but I don't know what they are, so it is hard to make an informed choice.

I would go to Barnard. I want to meet a nice Jewish boy, so where better to look than across the street?

Since I am related to Sophia Smith of SMITH COLLEGE, I choose there.

Only fuggos and lesbos go to Barnyard, Smart pretty girls go to Vassar.

Smith is for sluts.

Sweet Briar almost closed recently, so I would hope I'd have the sense to avoid that one.

Here OP, let this childrens cartoon illustrate the various different "personalities" of the Seven Sister.

However if you have to ask, obviously you are strictly NOKD, may I suggest a school more fitting your social status, I hear SUNY Buffalo has low standards, why not try there?

I don't think Sweet Briar is a 7S, but it is a nice school, nonetheless, and I am glad it was saved.

Right R7, the second list are schools that were not the original 7 Sisters, thats the first list.

R6 - I know the personalities, Maybe your note was to R1, not me the OP. Great Cartoon.

I'm Sharon from Pittsburg, and I dream of being a NY bohemian but my parents won't let me go to Barnard. So I'm going to Vassar. I'll spend my time in the West Village and go to a few Yale Football games, but I'm going to end up dating for 2 years a hot wise-cracking Jew from Brooklyn College who won't take no for an answer. I'll pretend that I dumped him after I graduate and move to Paris, but in reality he calls me a Shiksa slut in my senior year and dumps me in May, when he moves to LA to take a job at MGM from his second cousin.

I'm guessing, Sharon from "Pittsburg," that you wouldn't have gotten into a Seven Sisters college not knowing how to spell the name of your hometown. Or maybe that didn't matter yet in 1952.

Well I only know about Sweet Briar because the classiest girl in my high school announced she was going there. She wore a different outfit every day of the school year--never wore the same thing twice. I found out later that she went to UT Austin instead!!

I choose Smith, if it was good enough for beloved FLOTUS and DL Icon Bar Bush.

I shall also follow in her Smith alumna illustrious footsteps, mainly getting knocked up by some Navy pilot from a much lower social class and dropping out after 2 weeks., and running off to Midland Texas to raise a family of imbeciles whom with he soiled my womb

Smith College - as a non-American, one of the few I've heard of. And the great Sylvia Plath went there.

Mills is in OAKLAND! How GHASTLY! Definitely not top drawer!

How is Bryn Mawr? No one ever mentions that school.

Marilyn Monroe as Sugar Cane mentioned Bryn Mawr in Some Like it Hot. But she lied and said she graduated from the Sheboygan Conservatory of Music.

Bryn Mawr has an endowment of 850 million and 1,300 undergraduates. I'm sure its a lovely place to study with good facilities.

Last week I climbed the Seven Sisters Hill from Engle Street to Route 9W.

I'm an Upper Richmond Girls' School girl!

[quote] Also in the choice: Skidmore, Bennington, Sarah Lawrence, Mills, Scripts

Oh, [italic]dear.[/italic]

Sylvia Plath was Barbara Bush ( Pierce at the time)freshman year roommate at Smith , even though Bar left after only 2 weeks, her influence on Plath's work and life are well known.

"Oh for heavens sake Sylvia , stop blubbering., I haven't seen your damned journal , you had it in the kitchen last night, why don't you look in the oven again?"

Bar did finish her degree though after the war, an Arts degree from a small private college in Maine, Loathesome Hall.

Bar is not one to lord her degree over others, but she is quite proud of being "A Loathesome Old Girl"

Two of these bitches died and nobody told me?

Q: What's the difference between a Smithie and a Ferrari?

A: Most men haven't been in a Ferrari.

Swarthmore, darling, Swarthmore.

I'm a Vassar girl, forever faithful to the V. After Vassar, I'm off to Hollywood for a taste of glamour. I've an executive secretary position lined up with the chief of an important bank in Beverly Hills. Can't wait to add West Coast birds to my Life List.

[quote]I'm a Vassar girl, forever faithful to the V.

You can say that again, bulldagger!

"Hi girls! Did you hear that Princeton had to switch to artificial turf in the football stadium?"

"Well, they had to do something to keep their cheerleaders from grazing at half-time!"

That's Scripps, OP, not Scripts. And yeah, I'd go there.

Bryn Mawr College because it's the prettiest campus(possibly the prettiest in the country) and would have lots of rough blue collar townies to slum with.

Kate Hepburn was a Bryn Mawr girl although she almost got thrown out at least once.

Today I would go to Mills, but not in 1952. It had no prestige then.

It depends on how I feel about the big city. If I'm scared of it, Bennington (or more probably Middlebury). If I like it Barnard since it's in New York. As a gay man I like the cities, but my pretty clever white girl may I might find them scary. Also it's the 1950s, so I'm hoping for an MRS, right, so it has to provide opportunities to socialize. In that case I might go for Mt. Holyoke (Smith might intimidate the guys).

Amherst

Amherst went coed in 1974. So no. Pay attention to directions, darling.

R24 Swarthmore was always coed, so no. Sorry.

My mother went to Bryn Mawr in the late 1950's, so I can answer from her point of view. My mother applied to Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Smith, and Vassar. She felt that Mt. Holyoke and Radcliffe weren't at her level (Holyoke below, Radcliffe above) and that Barnard was too Jewish (my mother is sort of a self-hating Jew). She was rejected by Wellesley (she believes because of a Jewish quota) and chose Bryn Mawr because it was stronger academically than the others, which in her mind seemed more directed toward the Mrs. degree.

My mother was rather unusual in her focus, and she became rather successful as a result.

Bryn Mawr, because of their Honour code, and I'd be an honourable kinda girl [but still pretty and smart though].

I'd be the one at Bryn Mawr who got all the drugs and alcohol for the other girls. I'd bring them to parties where all the rough trade were. One of them would pull a train after she passed out on too much booze and pills. She'd regain consciousness at guy number three. A colored boy maybe. She'd come crying to me the next day. I'd be all: "Betty please. Are you crying because it happened or that you enjoyed it?" Not to worry though I'd know where to get an abortion too.

The funny thing is, at our 20 year reunion, I'd be the one with the long lasting marriage and be the stay at home mom to five beautiful kids. "I'm sorry you're still filled with this anger and hurt Betty but that's NOT the way I remember it. "

I need to re-watch "The Group."

The Group was an OK movie but this scene is one of my all time favorite movie scenes. Who would have thought Hagman and Bergen would be a lesson in subtlety?

"I never picked you for a Sapphic. Or to put it crudely-- a LEZBO! Were you always that way?"

I didn't go to Scripps, but I slept there a lot.

Vassar and I'm lezzie only on campus, not in New York, Palm Beach and Sun Valley.

Mt Holyoke, alma mater of DL fave JULIA PHILLIPS

I knew a really obnoxious black woman who went to Wellesley when she was middle-aged. Lived in the dorms and everything. She was a former crackhead with dentures. She was obsessed with new money v. old money, shit like that. Had to be personality disordered.

She was also a slut and slept with anyone who would take her. Now she’s a fake lesbian. Loved being a lesbian at Wellesley, too.

Wellesley since it’s about halfway between mummy and daddy’s home in Boston and their summer place in Westerly.

Seven Sisters of the South

Agnes Scott College – Decatur, Georgia.

Brenau University – Gainesville, Georgia.

Hollins University – Roanoke, Virginia.

Mary Baldwin University – Staunton, Virginia.

Salem College – Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Sweet Briar College – Sweet Briar, Virginia.

Wesleyan College – Macon, Georgia.

I would avoid those Yankee lesbian hotbeds like the plague!

Spend four years sweating around with all those big ol' Field Hockey Gals?

47 comments and no one has said the most commonly heard phrase about two of these girls' schools:

"Smith to bed, Holyoke to wed."

That's what all us Ivy guys said in the 1960s. And before.

I'm a pure but innocently lezzie curious, liberal arts major at Mills who liberates everything after reading "Lady Chatterly's Lover" on a long, un"lost" weekend.