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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]and penn state has an even bigger alumni group than all of them! but the correlation between size of alumni group and the quality of the help is meaningless.  The only other SLAC - other than Williams and Amherst - with an alumni group that actually gets kids jobs, is the much maligned (on this site) W&L.   Swarthmore kids don’t typically enjoy their 4 years, and happy to cut ties from what I’ve seen. Swarthmore is a tough 4 years and academics arguably the best and most intense of all save UChicago, but that doesn’t necessarily lead to a fun 4 years [/quote]
The academics is hard but totally manageable (my kid had high rigor classes in HS, and had no problems adjusting tvo Swat). Allows for activities/campus jobs and time to do fun stuff too. The learning environment is stimulating, the facilities and campus top-notch, professors are by and large very good. [b]My kid is having a wonderful experience at Swarthmore[/b].[/quote]

of course there are exceptions like your kid, but williams is much more fun than swarthmore [/quote]

I have a kid at Swat. It’s not really for the play hard crowd. She has fun on her own terms, but not the kind of fun DH and I had. [/quote]

Can you explain more? I just took my rising junior through Swat, Haverford, Penn, Wesleyan, and BC. He loved Swat; the campus is beautiful, the tour guide was quirky and really compelling about why it is such a great place to be. In what ways is it intense? Fwiw my kid is intense in some ways; his default setting is trying his absolute hardest whether at sports or school or whatever. (I have another kid who is preternaturally chill, it's just their personalities!) Both of my kids are very social, neither one drinks or vapes or whatever. I keep hearing the intense thing about Swat and I don't know whether I should be encouraging my kid there or shooing him away.

Fwiw he also had very positive impressions of Wesleyan and Penn. Haverford was a miss, BC was a maybe but probably too rahrah. [/quote]
Not PP, but I’m the other Swat parent who’s posted before. My kid’s personality is kind of in between your two, social, sporty, makes friends easily but also works hard during the week, balancing academics and activities. Super focused and really really good at time management. Friday and Saturday, there are usually parties at Swat or Haverford, or they just chill in the dorms.

Students are passionate and serious about what they are doing, and that creates a driven environment. Some of the doom-and-gloom folks here can’t believe you can work hard and have fun. But you can, and my kid is, happy, engaged, learning, growing. I really couldn’t ask for more.[/quote]

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