Haverford
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Anonymous
| I heard of San Jose State but never heard of Haverford. I wouldn't advise my child to attend Haverford and I would not think its a good financial ROI. |
Anonymous
I love how you have decided it's not a good ROI without ever having heard of the school. Well researched, my friend. |
Anonymous
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Guys, Haverford is TINY - less than 1,200 students. That's smaller than most high schools around here. That's part of its appeal. USNews ranks it above Wesleyan, Colby and Colgate.
Just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean the recruitment departments of major companies haven't. It's an excellent, if tiny, school. |
Anonymous
| 49,000 per year for a tiny school that is not IVY caliber (unlike Williams) that most people never heard. Bad ROI |
Anonymous
| Georgetown, U of MD, UVA, Penn State, Syracuse, GW, American are all significantly more marketable degrees in this area. |
Anonymous
| Anyone a graduate? Anyone's spouse or sibling a graduate? |
Anonymous
My spouse is. He's been very successful in his career which has taken him (and us) around the world. |
Anonymous
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Here's a list of Alumni
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Haverford_College_people#Alumni |
Anonymous
| Is he still close with friends from college? How many? Do you live near the school today? |
Anonymous
LOL. Not everyone strives to be in this area. |
Anonymous
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I am so excited I got into Haverford. It's going to be the best 4 years ever. Not.
It looks like a fall back school for kids that didn't get in elsewhere or kids afraid to be at a larger school. |
Anonymous
| 49k per year. |
Anonymous
The one's that pop out to me include: Ken Stern '85, CEO of NPR Eugene Ludwig '68, Chairman and CEO of Promontory Financial Group; former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency Howard Lutnick '83, Chairman and CEO of the Cantor Fitzgerald Company Eric Kuhn '93, CEO of Varsity Books and FoundersCard Henry Ritchotte '85, COO of Deutsche Bank Barry Zubrow '75, former Chief Risk Officer at JP Morgan Chase; former Chief Administrative Officer at Goldman Sachs John C. Whitehead '43, former Co-Chairman of Goldman Sachs, deputy U.S. Secretary of State under Reagan and later chairman of Lower Manhattan Development Corporation; namesake of Whitehead Campus Center James Kuo '86, bio-medical entrepreneur; CEO of BioMicro Systems Ken Ludwig 1972, Tony Award-winning playwright of Lend Me a Tenor and Crazy for You and a lawyer (of counsel) for Steptoe & Johnson LLP Koichiro Matsuura '61 Economics, former Japanese Ambassador to France, 1999-now, Director-General of UNESCO Christopher Van Hollen '47, former United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives from 1972 to 1976[4] Adi Ignatius 1981, Editor-in-Chief of Harvard Business Review Dave Barry '69 English, Pulitzer Prize–winning humor columnist Norman Pearlstine, former editor-in-chief of Time magazine; Chief Content Officer at Bloomberg L.P. Stephen J. Lippard '62, Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry, MIT |
Anonymous
Well, we live in the DC area today! Yes, he is close with his friends and others from different classes. The school is so small everyone knew everyone, I think. The nice thing was there was Bryn Mawr down the street and the had access to Philly and the suburbs. I think that was why he picked HC over other choices. |
Anonymous
| Yes Bryn Mawr an all girls school can take classes at Haverford it's a bus ride away and its reciprocal. Haverford is half girls and half boys. Bryn Mawr is all girls. So the campus becomes 4 girls for every 1 guy. Great if your kid is a straight male. Your son would love it. |