# Getting into a seven sister school

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-into-a-seven-sister-school/680864>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 8, 2014, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-into-a-seven-sister-school/680864 "2014-02-08T23:39:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![copperwindow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@copperwindow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/copperwindow)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-into-a-seven-sister-school/680864/1 "2014-02-08T23:39:03Z")

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I may have asked this once before (I can’t remember), but when Smith College says that they’re all female, are they referring to sex or gender?

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**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-into-a-seven-sister-school/680864/2 "2014-02-09T00:30:56Z")

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[Voilà](http://www.smith.edu/diversity/gender.php).

(Edit: I didn’t attend. I typed “Smith College trans women” into Google.)

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-into-a-seven-sister-school/680864/3 "2014-02-09T00:37:42Z")

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Yes, you asked (basically) this question [before](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=487620).

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**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-into-a-seven-sister-school/680864/4 "2014-02-09T01:52:56Z")

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If I really want to say that I spent over 3 decades in school, me and my penis can attend Vassar, no problem. And Radcliffe, I suppose. And I can go to Mills College as long as it’s graduate level.

That is not to say that female-identifying transgender are completely accepted in bathrooms and such at these colleges. Mills flipped out over admitting men at the undergrad level.

I give a pass for reposts as it’s been over 5 years.

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-into-a-seven-sister-school/680864/5 "2014-02-09T02:32:20Z")

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> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> Yes, you asked (basically) this question [before](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=487620).

Seeing that the OP has asked this question before, I’m going to close this one.