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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Haverford absolutely has first-rate academics but it is a Quaker institution at its core...and it IS what attracts many students...  
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False. There are only 75,000 Quakers left in the US and they are too old to have college-aged kids. Ever see the deserted Quaker church in Nantucket? It’s a dying religion. Also Haverford, like most Protestant missionary training schools started in the US, no longer has any affiliation with Quakerism.[/quote]

DD applied to Haverford in part because its ethos and connection to Quakerism appealed to her even though we're not Quaker. Many schools no longer have the initial religious affiliations they once had, but I'm sure many of them still bear an imprint from their origins.[/quote]

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Both of my kids were attracted to Haverford (but ultimately did not go there) because of the Quaker values and we're not Quaker...and the kids of friends that I know who have gone there were attracted for the same reason (also not Quaker)...and, to the OP's original question, very down-to-earth kids.[/quote]

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