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[quote=Anonymous]Of course the survey is a little off. You can see some huge differences between how facilities and locations are perceived in the same school. That's the nature of surveys, and you don't put so much weight in them because of that reliability. But I think it's telling when a school consistently does good.

I figured out why there are such big differences. RMP'S location asks for the whole area, hence why Swarthmore does much better there than in Niche (since it has access to Philly).  Niche asks about the immediate area, so just about every shcool does worse..because let's face it, Claremont or Williamstown or Middlebury get boring after a few weeks. RMP's facilities are based off campus beauty..and Swarthmore is as beautiful as it gets. Niche is based off not just beauty, but how renovated or run-down the facilities are on the inside. I've been to Swarthmore and Amherst. A lot of their buildings are not in good shape. Safety on Niche is not just based on how safe the campus is and its surrounding areas, but drug culture and administrative strictness as well.

I wouldn't call actual student perspectives worthless. Niche and RMP are written by students, and in my experience reading them, I don't see comments that are widely off about each school. It's usually really prestigious schools like Harvard and Stanford that get sabotaged by people who don't go there. My recommendation is, look at the actual perspectives written by the students. The numbers and grades give a quick weight to these colleges in a variety of categories based on those surveys, but it'd be stupid to pick on them alone because it says nothing about the highlights and cultures of these schools. [/quote]

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