1. SEVEN SISTERS COLLEGES
Hamida Gitsba, III IR.

2. The Seven Sisters are seven liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that are historically women's colleges. They are :
Barnard College
Bryn Mawr College
Mount Holyoke College
Radcliffe College
Smith College
Vassar College
Wellesley College.
All were founded between 1837 and Four are in Massachusetts, two are in New York, and one is in Pennsylvania. Radcliffe and Vassar are no longer women's colleges. Today, the remaining five schools refer to themselves collectively as "The Sisters."

3. History
Wellesley College was chartered in 1870 as the Wellesley Female Seminary, and was renamed Wellesley College in 1873.
In 1837, Mary Lyon founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
Vassar was the first of the Seven Sisters to be chartered as a college in 1861.

4. Radcliffe College was originally created in 1879 as The Harvard Annex for women's instruction by Harvard faculty. It was chartered as Radcliffe College in 1894.
Barnard College has been affiliated with Columbia University since its founding in 1888.
Smith College was chartered in 1871.Opened in 1875
Bryn Mawr opened in 1885.

5. Formation and Name

6. Coeducation
Radcliffe has merged with Harvard College and is now defunct as an independent entity.
Barnard College was founded in 1888 as a woman's college affiliated with Columbia University.
Vassar declined an offer to merge with Yale University and instead became coeducational in 1969.

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