Smith College has maintained its 2015 admissions policy of self-identification, explicitly welcoming applicants who identify as women, including transgender women, without requiring specific documentation. The college reaffirmed this stance on its website into October 2026 and responded to the U.S. Department of Education’s May 2026 Title IX investigation—opened after a conservative group’s complaint—by stating its policies comply with federal law and align with institutional values. The probe examines whether admitting biological males to single-sex spaces violates the law’s biological-sex exception for private undergraduate institutions, yet no enforcement action or policy reversal has occurred. Any change would require board-level decisions amid likely legal challenges, supporting trader consensus that exclusion remains unlikely before or during 2026.