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- After an abortive attempt to merge with the then-all-women’s Vassar College, Yale’s then-president, Kingman Brewster, announced that female students would be accepted in the class of 1973. More than 2,800 “female Uebermensches” applied for what would eventually be 230 spots in the freshman class.
www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/09/first-undergraduate-women-yale/598216/
278 women are admitted for the class of 1973 for a target class of 240 women. 370 female transfer students are accepted: 212 for the class of 1971, and 158 in the class of 1972. 2,800 women had applied to the freshman class resulting in a 10% acceptance rate, which was unheard of at the time.
Sep 22, 2019 · After an abortive attempt to merge with the then-all-women’s Vassar College, Yale’s then-president, Kingman Brewster, announced that female students would be accepted in the class of 1973.
- Ashley Fetters
In Her Words These short vignettes feature excerpts of interviews with Yale’s first undergraduate women - from the classes of 1971, 1972, and 1973 - supplemented by archival material. The interviews took place in 2018 - 2020 as part of the 50th anniversary Oral History Project.
Sep 18, 2019 · A half century ago – almost to the day – 575 women broke 268 years of tradition and officially registered as Yale undergraduate students, along with 4,000 men. There were 151 sophomores and 194 juniors admitted as transfer students and assigned to live in the residential colleges.
First Women in Yale College: Reflections on Coeducation for the 50th Anniversary Celebration is a collection of essays about the early years of coeducation, written by the first women undergraduates – in the classes of 1971, 1972, and 1973 – who entered Yale in September 1969.
Jan 18, 2023 · In September 1969, the first undergraduate women arrived at Yale College—230 freshmen matriculated as part of the Class of 1973, 151 sophomore transfer students joined the Class of 1972, and 194 junior transfer students became members of the Class of 1971.
Nov 14, 2018 · Yale then joined 75 percent of other U.S. colleges that had gone coed by 1965, even though the university had accepted female graduate students since the late 1800s.
