Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr is also the name of an official neighborhood of the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Bryn Mawr - Official neighborhood - Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Bryn Mawr College is a women's liberal-arts college located in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, northwest of Philadelphia. It is one of the Seven Sisters. It has approximately 1,200 undergraduates and 400 graduate students. The name "Bryn Mawr" is Welsh for "big hill" (not 'high hill', as is sometimes stated, which would be 'Bryn Uchel').

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Women's - Liberal-arts college - Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - Seven Sisters - Welsh

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There is also a Bryn Mawr School for girls in grades K-12 in Baltimore, Maryland that was founded in 1885 to help girls prepare for college; the Bryn Mawr School shared some early supporters with the college (one of the founders, M. Carey Thomas, was Bryn Mawr College's first dean), but is otherwise unaffiliated.

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Baltimore - Maryland - M. Carey Thomas

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