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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Haverford and Swarthmore  are both selective…but different communities. Haverford has Quaker roots. It is small and tight knit.  Swarthmore is very intense, in a way that my DC did not like. [/quote]

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Though they are often compared to each other (and are in the same consortium so students can cross register for classes), they have very different vibes.  Swarthmore feels more like U Chicago/Hopkins...very intense/hyper intellectual...Haverford feels more like Brown/Wesleyan/Carleton.  Both great schools but they tend to appeal to different types.

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We visited Haverford, Swarthmore and Penn in one visit. DC expected to like Haverford the most because we had heard the same as above. However, Haverford was so quiet it was unnerving. The tour guide (which I know is luck of the draw) was bland and her enthusiasms for Haverford (if they could even be called that) were so generic. Not only were DC and we turned off on the school for him personally after the visit, I’d say we left feeling like the college has no identity. Versus Swarthmore had a lot more students out and about on campus (the visits were on the same day of the week) and the tour guide was really passionate and specific about what she loved about Swarthmore, the different things her friends are passionate about there, etc.  DC wound up not even applying to Haverford which I still wonder if was a mistake based on all of the great things we had read about Haverford but the in person visit was a bust. [/quote]

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