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  2. Mount Holyoke College - Wikipedia

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    Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States. [11] It is the oldest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of historically female colleges in the Northeastern United States. [12] The college was founded in 1837 as the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary by Mary Lyon, a ...

  3. Need-blind admission - Wikipedia

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    Need-blind admission. Need-blind admission in the United States refers to a college admission policy that does not take into account an applicant's financial status when deciding whether to accept them. This approach typically results in a higher percentage of accepted students who require financial assistance and requires the institution to ...

  4. List of colleges and universities in Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    Mount Holyoke: 16 229 Smith: 17 252 Olin: 18 258 Clark: 19 281 Stonehill: 20 316 Emerson: 21 332 Simmons: 22 335 WIT: 23 390 Suffolk: 24 499 Berklee: 25 540 Wheaton: 26 559 Assumption: 27 585 Hampshire *State rankings based on Forbes ranking

  5. Seven Sisters (colleges) - Wikipedia

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    The Seven Sisters are a group of seven private liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that are historically women's colleges. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Barnard College, Bryn Mawr College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and Wellesley College are still women's colleges. Vassar College became coeducational in 1969 and Radcliffe College ...

  6. Amherst College - Wikipedia

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    For the class first enrolled in fall 2021, Amherst received 13,999 applications and accepted 1,224 (an 8.7% acceptance rate). 514 students ultimately enrolled; 91% were in the top 10% of their high school classes, and the middle 50% scored between 1440 and 1540 on the SAT and between 32 and 35 on the ACT. 38 states and 23 countries were ...

  7. Holyoke Community College - Wikipedia

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    www.hcc.edu. Holyoke Community College (HCC) is a public community college in Holyoke, Massachusetts. It offers associate degrees and certificate programs, as well as a transfer program for students to earn credits for transfer to other colleges. It was the first community college established in Massachusetts, as it was founded by the city's ...

  8. Transfer admissions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    e. Transfer admissions in the United States refers to college students changing universities during their college years. While estimates of transfer activity vary considerably, the consensus view is that it is substantial and increasing, [ 1] although media coverage of student transfers is generally less than coverage of the high school to ...

  9. Women's colleges in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1837, Lyon founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College), which was chartered as a college in 1888. [8] Harwarth, Maline, and DeBra note Mount Holyoke's significance as a model for other women's colleges in the U.S., [9] and both Vassar College and Wellesley College were patterned after Mount Holyoke. [10]