Bryn Mawr College
- 4 Year
- BRYN MAWR, PA
Women's CollegeGrad School
Bryn Mawr College Reviews
Rating 3.92 out of 5 446 reviews
Bryn Mawr College was a great home for me. Professors and staff care about students and student needs. I loved the self-governance aspect of the school where students got to make decisions concerning how the institution is run. I loved the sense of community, the beauty of the campus, and the skills I received to thrive beyond the walls of Bryn Mawr!
I love the women's and gender minority empowerment. I love the small class sizes and feeling connected to professors. The campus is beautiful and the consortium with Haverford, Swarthmore, and UPenn is great.
Bryn Mawr College is a truly magical school and I could not be more happy to attend. Campus and academics are everything I could hope for. Please consider applying or transferring!
High quality education with a beautiful campus. Staff are supportive and dedicated to the success of students. Their various student support programs are evidence of this.
Bryn Mawr College is such a special, unique place. The biggest thing that I love about BMC is the professors. They truly care about your wellbeing and want you to succeed, rather than just focusing on grades/stats.
Very little support on campus. If you are at all struggling, or not immediately finding your way, don't expect to find help from admin or anybody for that matter. Handled covid very poorly, making kids choose to be safe and healthy or their mental health. Professors were very smart and supportive to students, but living on campus is very isolating and difficult.
It feels like living in Hogwarts and home at the same time. I love how people are nice and supportive. It has the best traditions (one of my reason to apply here) and dining halls always come out with great ideas for making the experience great. Would 100% recommend it!
Bryn Mawr College is my second home. They have really beautiful campus and best classmates and professor.
Bryn Mawr is a very unique place to live and learn. It's a beautiful campus with a strong sense of community. All of my professors were experts in their fields and approached teaching with a kind of care, personality, and individualization that is not common in many bigger schools. The academics are great, but the social atmosphere of the school can be stifling at times.
Bryn Mawr College prepared me for life after college. Through close mentorship with professors and help from our fellowship advisor, I graduated BMC with both Fulbright and Boren scholarships. Wherever I end up next, I know I have the support and understanding of lifelong friends, fellow alums, and every department. You get as much support as you need (for the rest of your life) without it being overbearing -- even if you don't ask. While no institution is perfect, Bryn Mawr was perfect for me.
Growing up in a patriarchal society, I knew I wanted to experience college at a place where women had the opportunity to be leaders and help each other create personal pathways to success. I was intrigued at the concept of focusing on the "presence of women" and not the "absence of men". Like any other college, it has its fair share of opportunities to better itself, however, I have been able to grow both academically and emotionally. The small classroom environments have helped create personalized relationships with professors. The diversity gives you the opportunity to have friends that come from various different backgrounds and cultures. With time, I was also able to find people with similar religious beliefs and had a very memorable Ramadan my freshman year of college. Not to mention, the open space on campus along with a strong unity amongst students, Bryn Mawr felt like home almost immediately. I could not have asked for a better fit.
The professors were very friendly and I loved the school academically. The staff really wanted everyone to succeed.
While I love the friends that I made, the school presents itself falsely. Open conversations are not an aspect of this campus nor is its relationship to schools in the area as easily accessible. The health services were severely lacking during my time on campus as well.
It's a great school, but definitely not for everyone.
While I love the friends that I made, the school presents itself falsely. Open conversations are not an aspect of this campus nor is its relationship to schools in the area as easily accessible. The health services were severely lacking during my time on campus as well.
It's a great school, but definitely not for everyone.
I love the traditions at Bryn Mawr! By participating in them, you will feel incredibly at home and like you belong and are loved. Additionally, by going to Bryn Mawr, you are able to take classes at Haverford College, Swarthmore College, and the University of Pennsylvania which is an incredible opportunity to academically grow.
Bryn Mawr has changed how I see the world in just one short year, and this is while being mostly restricted with covid precautions. The professors are truly invested in their work and words can't fully describe how close the community is. I was nervous at first to attend an all-women's college, but it has been worth it. The only change I'd make would be to see some of the students loosen up about work, but you can definitely see more of a party scene if you visit the sister campuses.
I am not the best at online learning at all and I struggle a lot with zoom fatigue but I think bryn mawr and myself did the best we could with the situation at hand and I learned a lot from the past semester.
This year was extremely challenging with Covid and also I was very conflicted on my major, but I met so many lovely people and friends and gained so much academically that every challenge that this year brought was worth it!
it’s been more than rough but most of my professors have been pretty accommodating (access services do this challenge)! for language classes it really disrupts the flow but I haven’t felt horrible about zoom classes although they are exhausting in every possible way
even though it was a very different year with covid precautions as a first year I’m very happy with my time here so far! obviously none of this was close to normal (concerning both the pandemic and the bico strike) and I know there are other people on campus that have been far more affected by the events of this school year/poor administration so my review can’t and should be compared to that of a normal year. my only major complaint is that access services pretty much sucks so if you have a mental disability like I do they’ll drag out the accommodations process for months :) but that being said I found a lovely friend group and have never felt excluded for my identity! also I always feel safe on campus even walking late at night which makes me happy
Bryn Mawr is an incredible school! It struggles with diversity (racially, ethnically, religiously, politically, etc.) but truly fosters an amazing academic and community experience.
It´s been difficult, but by and large professors have tried to be accommodating. The biggest issue is perhaps assumptions about what technological resources students have access to.