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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I graduated from Swarthmore quite a while ago, but I have to say these news items don't surprise me. I thought I was liberal as a teenager, and in fact have been a lifelong Democrat, but I was considered right of center at Swarthmore. For instance, in the '90s there was an angry debate on campus about whether or not there should be an American flag on top of the main campus building. A number of students felt that they could not support what an American flag represented.

It was not a good fit for me in the end, because of its *truly* excessive academic intensity and its failure to direct students to anything other than academia/med school after graduation. It had small classes and I made some good friends, but I can't say I would recommend it for my kids. [/quote]

I went to a small liberal arts college where I felt like a republican too! But mine was not intensively academic. How did that play out at swart more? Amount of homework?[/quote]

How can all these SLAC be so lefty when most of these kids come from and have been indoctrinated by their conservative parents. I work at a conservative private 3 - 12 and most of the parents AND kids skew pretty far right. I've also heard that the SLAC are preppy. How can you be preppy and crunchy at the same time? I don't know what to make of this.
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I briefly attended a near-Swarthmore SLAC.  I think the rich kids go to places like S'more when they can't get in elsewhere (their admissions stats typically are based on the 80% of the class in "regular" admission, and development cases and selected minority candidates are excluded from the numbers), and when they want to spend four years not bathing, getting wasted, and hooking up.  The academic seriousness that allegedly characterizes S'more is certainly not something I observed.  
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