2 definitions by poopieshit

smith college

Smith College, located in Northampton, Massachusetts, is the largest women's college in the United States. It is a private, non-denominational liberal arts college and one of the Seven Sisters. Smith is also a member of the Five Colleges consortium, which allows its students to attend classes at four other Pioneer Valley institutions: Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Notable Facts:
Kurt Vonnegut and Sylva Plath were part of the faculty at Smith College.
Smith College is the first and only women's college in the United States to grant its own undergraduate degrees in engineering.
Smith has an endowment of over one billion dollars.

Notable alumnae:
Harriet Boyd-Hawes
Otelia Cromwell
Margaret Mitchell
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Julia McWilliams Child
Madeleine L'Engle
Betty Friedan
Nancy Reagan
Barbara Bush
Sylvia Plath
Gloria Steinem
Mary McPherson
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Tammy Baldwin

I was rejected by Smith College.

by poopieshit July 17, 2006

seven sisters

The Seven Sisters is the name which was given in 1927 to seven liberal arts women's colleges in the United States (the colleges, themselves, were all founded between 1837-1889). The colleges included Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley. Five of the seven remain women's colleges today and only one (Radcliffe, which merged into Harvard) no longer exists.
Mount Holyoke, Smith College, Bryn Mawr College, and Wellesley College are still women's colleges. Barnard College is still affiliated with Columbia University but remains an independent women's college.
Irene Harwarth, Mindi Maline, and Elizabeth DeBra also state that "the 'Seven Sisters' was the name given to Barnard, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, and Radcliffe, because of their parallel to the Ivy League men’s colleges.

I applied to Smith and Vassar because I want to go to a seven sisters college.

by poopieshit July 17, 2006