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BI-COLLEGE CONSORTIUM (BI-CO): A SIBLING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TWO OF AMERICA’S MOST PRESTIGIOUS, SELECTIVE LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES

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The Bi-College Consortium is a formal relationship between Haverford College and Bryn Mawr College that builds upon and cements more than one hundred years of cooperation and collaboration between the two institutions. The two selective liberal arts colleges have a common foundation and an intertwined history which has seen various degrees of coordination between the two, especially when both operated as single-sex institutions (Bryn Mawr remains so). Both colleges have developed reputations as prestigious, highly selective, and academic rigorous institutions and have long-been associated with the upper classes of American society, despite their progressive Quaker ethos, albeit they are amongst the most socially inclusive third-level schools in the United States today.

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THE ENGLISH PUBLIC SCHOOL: WHAT IS IT AND WHY IS IT CALLED THAT?

In the United Kingdom and those countries where the English influence was perhaps the greatest, the term “Public School” is well understood and commonly used, albeit extremely poorly defined. Outside of those countries, the term’s use as a moniker for what are, in fact, elite private schools is a cause of great confusion – especially where schools under the management and care of the state or local authorities may be called public schools, as is the case in the United States. Moreover, even in those Commonwealth countries wherein the term is used, it is often misapplied and used as a synonym for a private school (particularly in India and Australia). However, not all private schools are Public Schools.