Allison Chi-Tsen Wu will be attending Smith College, and she says:
Initially I wasn't even considering a women's college. It wasn't until I heard Smith students and professors discuss the advantages of an all-women's education that I reconsidered.
I told a Smith professor that I didn't have any problem speaking up in classes with guys and therefore didn't think I needed an all-female classroom. The professor said she understood and that I might be interested in studies that showed men spoke the majority of the time in a normal conversation between men and women even though both the men and the women thought the time was equal! This made me realize there really could be a different dynamic if a classroom was all-female.