All Women's Colleges, or, How I Almost Went to Mills

When I was in early high school, I was really into the idea of going to an all women's college (the movie "Mona Lisa Smile," starring Julia Roberts as a professor who shakes things up at Wellesley College in the 1950s, may have played a big part in that). Being from the West coast, Mills— a small all women's college in Oakland, CA — was a top choice. Like at Wellesley, Mills women are very proud of their all women's history. And, like Wellesley's course exchanges with Harvard and MIT, Mills has students taking classes at Stanford and UC Berkeley.

I absolutely loved Mills' campus when I visited, too.

It looks like this:

via Mills College on LinkedIn

And it's in the Bay Area, which is one of my favorite parts of the U.S.

For those of you who are thinking about college soon, I encourage you to seriously consider all women's colleges. They have a number of advantages that you can't get from a coeducational experience, as well as generally fantastic financial aid.