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Like other women's colleges in the United States, Sweet Briar College has many traditions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diane-propsner/traditions-at-womens-coll_b_6115416.html|title=10 Fantastic Autumn Traditions Celebrated at Women's Colleges|work=The Huffington Post|date=6 November 2014}}</ref> The most prominent is the annual Founder's Day, when students, faculty and staff walk to Monument Hill to place daisies at Daisy Williams's grave site and memorial.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sbc.edu/student-involvement-leadership-and-inclusivity/traditions|title=Traditions|work=sbc.edu|access-date=2017-08-08|archive-date=2017-08-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808155450/http://sbc.edu/student-involvement-leadership-and-inclusivity/traditions/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Admissions policy barring transgender students ==

In August 2024 Sweet Briar announced that it would not accept transgender students. Recent changes to the [[Common Application] which Sweet Briar had used now list 4 possible genders, something the college found unacceptable saying that the change “presents a challenge both for students applying for admission and administrators and staff making admissions decisions.”<ref name="Moody">{{cite web |last1=Moody |first1=Josh |title=New Sweet Briar Policy Bars Transgender Students |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/trustees-regents/2024/08/28/new-sweet-briar-policy-bars-transgender-students |website=Inside Higher Ed |publisher=[[Inside Higher Ed]] |access-date=28 August 2024 |language=en |date=28 August 2024}}</ref>

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