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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm normally a Swarthmore booster and I have to say the immediate previous poster is dead wrong. A free two years at Swarthmore is not to be sneezed at. Nobody will know or care after graduation where she started out, and if they do they will only be the more impressed. And one thing I love about Swat is that extracurriculars are wide open to anybody who wants to join. You're not competing with a deep field of people who have to pay their dues in organizations.

But as a college professor I would say it's worth taking the extra year if the extra cost at Wellesley is doable. The on-ramp to upper-level work at any of the very selective SLACs is steep. If Swat has judged she can do it, she can do it. But the extra year to settle in, make friends, both refine AND expand her interests, will be really good. The language and study abroad motivations seem strong. The difference in prestige, if any, matters a lot more to anxious applicants than to anyone on the post-graduation end. [/quote]

Me again. To clarify, by "immediate PP" I mean the "the student is just a CC transfer" PP is dead wrong.[/quote]

I was only pointing out the irony of a CC grad to focus on such thing as prestige in downgrading Wellsley.  You would think a CC grad doesn't have many schools to look down on.  [/quote]

What in the world? There is no irony here, just a young woman trying to make the best decision possible. She's doing exactly what any kid should do, carefully examining potential pros and cons. She's not looking down on anything.[/quote]

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