Bryn Mawr is a women's college about 15 miles outside of Philadelphia. It is a small liberal arts college of about 1500 students, 400 graduate students, 100 post bacs and about 150 professors. We have a relationship with Haverford and Swarthmore colleges and we are capable of taking classes there, majoring there, having fun there and their students are allowed to do the same. We are steeped in tradition, the majority of which makes the experience really enjoyable and a lot of fun.
Bryn Mawr is an intense environment, and no just academically. People who come here are passionate about SOMETHING. it may be a ridiculous something, it may be a political something, it may be an academic something or an athletic something, but they are indeed, passionate about it. It can be daunting, but Bryn Mawr certainly would not be, well, Bryn Mawr, without it. If nothing else, it gives us something to talk about (whether that be good or bad, well, that's for the individual to decide).
Bryn Mawr is a small but strong community, brought together 4 times a year by major traditions, which break up the semesters, designate rites of passage and generally are a big welcome to the freshmen and a fun time for the upperclasswomen.
Bryn Mawr is not a party school. Sorry kids, but it's not. If you want a crazy social life with parties thursday through sunday, you can...you just have to go a couple miles down the road to the other universities surrounding us. So, you can have that life, you might just have to work for it a little.
We have dorms like palaces, food fit for kings (especially if you are a vegan king).