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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Right? I don’t understand some of these responses. The whole point of going to college is to be challenged and exposed to rigor. Why should Pomona and other elite schools continue to spoon feed As when their job is to educate?

The more I hear about Pomona the less I see the point. Going to a utopia where wine flies endlessly, the sun is perpetually shining, and grading is easy? There are cheaper ways to vacation. Some of us care about going much above the high school level and being pushed to our fullest academically - so [b]thank you to Swarthmore,[/b] Uchicago, MIT, Davidson, Johns Hopkins, etc who actually care about ensuring their graduates learn something[/quote]

Yes, let’s look at Swarthmore!
[quote]Winnie Ngo ’15, a transfer student from Northwestern University, hasn’t had a difficult time transitioning to the coursework at Swarthmore; in fact, she says the amount of work assigned at the two institutions is comparable.…Ngo noted that Swarthmore students seemed to cope with uncertainty surrounding post-graduation jobs and plans by refusing to think about the impending future. “People say that you can’t think about it here, that you just have to study what you’re interested in,” she said. “I feel like that’s a very defined example of how we are sheltered here.”[/quote]

[quote]The ‘everywhere else it would’ve been an A’ is talking about schools outside the top elite colleges,” she said of Swarthmore’s unofficial motto. “It definitely doesn’t apply to Haverford, and I don’t think it applies to Bryn Mawr, either.[/quote]
Sounds like an absolutely insufferable student body who thinks way too highly of themselves [/quote]

Swarthmore isn't even grade deflated anymore lol. The average student has like a 3.7 GPA there these days. I actually know someone who did the Pomona-Swarthmore exchange and found the two comparable in grading scale. It's more of a stereotype than anything based in reality.

https://www.gradeinflation.com/Swarthmore.html In 2013 the median GPA for grads was a 3.56, which was one of the highest in the nation.[/quote]

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