In Popular Culture
In the 2003 Simpsons episode "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can", Lisa Simpson dreams that personifications of each of the Seven Sisters colleges are attempting to woo her into attending. Their personalities are stereotyped as:
- Barnard: Columbia's girl next door.
- Radcliffe: Meeting Harvard men.
- Wellesley: Marrying Harvard men.
- Mount Holyoke: Getting drunk and partying (before passing out).
- Vassar: Refusing to conform to gender stereotypes (by not shaving her armpits)
- Smith: Athleticism
- Bryn Mawr: Sexual experimenting (followed by making out with Smith girl).
The 1978 film National Lampoon's Animal House satirizes a common practice (until the mid-1970s), when women attending Seven Sister colleges were connected with or to students at Ivy League schools. The film, which takes place in 1962, shows fraternity brothers from Delta House of the fictional Faber College (based on Dartmouth College) taking a road trip to the fictional Emily Dickinson College (based on Mount Holyoke College) to obtain dates.
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