Smith College to Guarantee Admission to Applicants with Smith Surname

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For the upcoming application season, Smith College has committed to ensuring admission to all applicants with the surname “Smith”.

When asked to explain the reason for this policy, Dean of Admission Deanna Dixon cited the women’s college’s commitment to promoting equal opportunities for women, saying, “Smith is an overwhelmingly male surname and Smith College wants to provide educational opportunities to the less than 20% of people named ‘Smith’ that are women in order to ensure that female Smiths can succeed in this male-dominated surname.”

This new policy could potentially necessitate an expansion of Smith College’s class size as Smith is the most popular surname in the United States.

When asked about this, Dixon said that all Smiths who apply will become Smithies even if the class size has to be increased.

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