Seven Sisters
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The Seven Sisters was a name given to seven liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that are historically women's colleges.Five of the seven institutions continue to offer all-female undergraduate programs: Barnard College, Bryn Mawr College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and Wellesley College.Vassar College has been co-educational since 1969.Radcliffe College shared common and overlapping history with Harvard College from the time it was founded as "the Harvard Annex" in 1879.Harvard and Radcliffe effectively merged in 1977, but Radcliffe continued to be the sponsoring college for women at Harvard until its dissolution in 1999.Barnard College was Columbia University's women's liberal arts undergraduate college until its all-male coordinate school Columbia College went co-ed in 1983; to this day, Barnard continues to be an all-women's undergraduate college affiliated with Columbia.
All seven schools were founded between 1837 and 1889.Four are in Massachusetts, two are in New York, and one is in Pennsylvania.