Tell us about Swarthmore
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Anonymous
Swarthmore crunchy? Not sure your daughter is using the word correctly. |
Anonymous
| I know two people who went there. One was one of the worst colleagues I have ever had. She went to TJ for high school. The other was the husband of a good friend. He cheated on her and is a lousy dad. Hopefully they aren’t representative of the school. |
Anonymous
Crunchy liberal, sure I suppose, though not more discernibly than most other top LACs. But crunchy in the sense that most of us use the word: hippie/green/vegetarian, not at all. Study nerds. Grinders. Brains. |
Anonymous
Hopefully? You can’t be serious. |
Anonymous
Seriously. Don’t go anywhere near Penn. Most famous grad is a complete scumbag and moron. |
Anonymous
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My DS graduated in 2008 in a science field. He was an athlete and was also accepted to a 2 other NESCACS. He choose Swarthmore for the academics and the diversity. My DS came from a umc primarily white high school. Academics were tough. but agree nobody discussed their grades. Super high achievers. At graduation, general chit chat came back to what's next for you...Lots of ivy degrees to follow from from Harvard Law to Oxford to medical school.
I read about the closing of the fraternities. I never even knew they had them. |
Anonymous
| My daughter is a junior and loves Swarthmore. She is being recruited for a sport but unfortunately she doesn’t have an SAT score, nor in all likelihood will she have one by pre-read season. Anyone been through this process at Swarthmore? Wondering if they’ll just drop SAT/ACT requirements or push back pre-reads. |
Anonymous
| My DC is a senior at Swarthmore. DC has health problems and Swarthmore has been very supportive. Classes very interesting lots of very bright very focused and diverse. Students. Very SJW. Separate from the didn’t get into Ivy but going to professional school group. |
Anonymous
No football team. What are you supposed to do on a Saturday afternoon in the fall? Watch a women's soccer match against Wellesley? No thanks! No football team? No school spirit. And if you ain't got school spirit at a small LAC, you ain't got the prototypical SLAC experience. You may as well enroll at Drexel. |
Anonymous
A sufficient reason in and of itself to cross this school off your list. |
Anonymous
Meathead checking in. |
Anonymous
| What’s SJW? |
Anonymous
It's an acronym for social justice warrior, but it means nincompoopery enthroned. |
Anonymous
| SJW bore is here again. If we stay quiet it will go away. |
Anonymous
A rather elegant term. Perhaps too elegant for the ugly phenomenon it's being used to describe. |