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The Seven Sisters Colleges were founded in the early to late 1800s to promote education for women that would be comparable to the coursework being offered to men at the time. It was not until 1927, at the Seven College Conference, that the term “Seven Sisters” came into use. 

The name Seven Sisters is also a reference to the Greek myth of The Pleiades, the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas, and the sea-nymph Pleione. The daughters –Maia, Electra, Taygete, Alcyone, Celaeno, Sterope, and Merope- were collectively referred to as The Seven Sisters. In the field of astronomy a star cluster, in the constellation of Taurus, is also referred to as The Pleiades or the Seven Sisters.

The stars on the Seven Sisters Alumnae Association logo represent the Pleiades formation.

Mount Holyoke College
Location: South Hadley, Massachusetts
First Admitted Students: 1837
Full-Time Enrollment: 2,300
Bryn Mawr College
Location: Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
First Admitted Students: 1879
Full-Time Enrollment: 1,229
Barnard College
Location: New York City, New York
First Admitted Students: 1889
Full-Time Enrollment: 2,500
Wellesley College
Location: Wellesley, Massachusetts
First Admitted Students: 1875
Full-Time Enrollment: 2,300
Smith College
Location: Northampton, Massachusetts
First Admitted Students: 1875
Full-Time Enrollment: 2,750
Radcliffe College
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
First Admitted Students: 1879
Full-Time Enrollment: N/A
Vassar College
Location: Poughkeepsie, New York
First Admitted Students: 1865
Full-Time Enrollment: 2,400
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