My grandmother and her twin sister, born in Illinois in 1900, had to spend a year in cram school to pass the Greek exam to get into Wellesly. Her sister was a successful Wellesly graduate of the time, she married a Harvard man. Her sister had to settle for an MIT grad.
I worked with an old E.E. who had graduated from Harvard Physics around the same time. He had to spend a year in cram school to get into Harvard, to study physics, too.
RE: My grandmother and her twin sister, born in Illinois in 1900, had to spend a year in cram school to pass the Greek exam to get into Wellesly.
The more interesting question to me is this — HOW MUCH WERE TUITION FEES THAN ? How much of an average person’s yearly income would it cost a family not on schoalrship or any aid? ( was there any such thing as aid then ?).