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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]

This is so offensive, you really come across as a jerk that is looking down on this student and her sister and CC students more broadly.  First, in her financial position, doing two years at CC sounds like the absolutely best choice to have made and having made it the sister clearly worked extremely hard on many fronts to earn the opportunities she currently is choosing between.

It is not that a CC student is looking down on either school.  The OP (the student's sister) is listing out pros and cons which include whether one school having more perceived prestige will impact the opportunities that her sister will have as a result of the choice and seeking advice on whether this is a concern.  This is not focusing on prestige for bragging rights, this is focusing on the real world consequences of the choice being made.  Your scoffing at the nerve of her (the irony!) to even consider prestige coming from a CC of all places, is condescending and offensive in addition to completely missing the point of the discussion.

OP - your sister sounds amazing and I wish you and her both the best.  FWIW, I agree with all those that suggest that your sister will get a lot of important experience out of three years at Wellesley, including the study abroad opportunities.  
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