<p>Since they are part of the quaker consortium, can bryn mawr students take classes here?</p>
<p>yep haverford / bryn mawr / swarthmore kids do take penn classes</p>
<p>thanks :)</p>
<p>it says on their website that bryn mawr students don’t get priority.
does this mean there’s a low chance they will be able to find a seating in the courses of their choice?</p>
<p>Check on practical constrictions of traveling to/from Penn to classes, i.e., factor in the train schedule, the time of travel to Penn (including walking to/from train to class) and reverse order to Bryn Mawr…then look at how that works with making it to your Bryn Mawr classes/activities.</p>
<p>i would think that just means bryn mawr kids don’t get special treatment</p>
<p>as in, reserved spots in classes for quaker consortium students</p>
<p>otherwise probably no real difference compared to normal penn students</p>
<p>People definitely do it, but the practical considerations cited by krm limit it. It’s about a 25 minute train ride, and the trains run roughly every half hour, and then there’s a 10-20 minute walk to Penn (or a shorter bus or trolley ride, for extra money), depending on where you are going. To make an 10:00 class reliably, you would have to leave Bryn Mawr around 8:45, and you might not get back until 12:30, and the round trip would cost you about $10-$14 per class (still cheaper than the parking if you drove a car – and if you do that during rush hour it wouldn’t save you a lot of time). Do-able, but a lot of effort.</p>
<p>Realistically, if you want to do a Quaker Consortium class, it would be an upper level seminar so that you would have just one class a week. These courses generally are easy to get into (read: they don’t fill up) so that shouldn’t be an issue. Time is a major factor, though.</p>
<p>It’s not a popular option. Haverford and to a lesser extent Swarthmore are much more poplular partly because of the schools sponsored van service</p>