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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Swarthmore. Too small and way too much work. Also SJW. [/quote]

Sorry to be the 4th person on here saying this, but I agree. I disliked it right away but wouldn’t transfer because it was so prestigious.[/quote]

Prestigious among a small portion of the educated, maybe, but zero name recognition among laypeople.[/quote]

Seriously. Let me be the 5th.  30 yrs later I seriously want a refund of the money my parents spent on Swarthmore.

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A clueless Harvard alumna here. Was planning on encouraging DC to strongly consider SLAC over Ivies. Not having personal knowledge of individual schools, curious how culture at Swarthmore is different than other LAC like Amherst, Williams, Pomona, etc. [/quote]

I saw this from a College Confidential listing of a parent whose child did the Swarthmore Pomona exchange:

[quote]My older D graduated from Pomona in 2019. But she spent an exchange semester during her junior year at Swarthmore, so she was able to compare the Pomona vibe (laid back West Coast) to the Swattie vibe (they sell T shirts that say things like “Swat Life - Anywhere Else it Would’ve Been an A.”) While at Swat she took an advanced Spanish class, real analysis, a computer science class (data structures & algorithms) and an intermediate level economics class. She felt that the two schools were basically identical in terms of academic rigor, grading and amount of homework. But Swatties take pride in their reputation for intensity and sort of a “misery poker” attitude about how hard they work.

One of the administrators she met at Swat told her that if you invite a Swattie and a Pomona student to a party on a Friday night, the Swattie will say no way, I’m too busy and the Pomona kid will say “absolutely” but in reality both will go to the library first to work until 10 pm and then go to the party.[/quote]

So I'm guessing it's more of a mentality thing than anything. FWIW, the average GPA of Swarthmore grads was 3.66 in 2021, which is generally along the lines of schools known for "grade inflation". [/quote]

This is interesting. I can see where the reputation kind of feeds on itself.[/quote]

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