Before the College went fully coeducational in 2005, most girls left at age 11 for secondary school.

It is the only all female dormitory remaining after Vassar went coeducational in 1969.

In 1960 there were 298 women's colleges; a decade later, about half had either closed or gone coeducational.

Prior to going coeducational, it was the oldest girls' school in the city.

Most were founded as girls' schools and a number have gone coeducational.

But now that some of the traditional boarding schools have gone coeducational, times are changing.

This is not to say that all men's colleges have gone coeducational.

It is one of many member schools to have gone coeducational having first admitted girls in 1980.

Many public women's schools also went coeducational in the postwar era.