Can I have some candid advice from current/past Haverford students?

<p>I visited the school and interviewed, and for the most part, I liked it. I do have some questions, though, some of which weren't exactly appropriate to ask during an interview or at the information session, so here goes.</p>

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<li><p>How's the Anthropology department? In terms of variety of courses, quality of professors, courses that can be taken at Swarthmore/Bryn Mawr, etc. Are there lots of opportunities for study abroad/internships? How are foreign language classes?</p></li>
<li><p>How would you describe the typical Haverford student? (Feel free to use a stereotype like prep, hipster, jock, etc. I just want to get a sense of what kind of students the college tends to attract.)</p></li>
<li><p>How much work do/did you have to do each day? How intense would you say the environment is? I want a school where the students are interested in learning for learning's sake (as opposed to just getting a fancy degree), but I also don't want to work myself to insanity. </p></li>
<li><p>How's the party scene? I mean, do students do that kind of thing much? I'm not into big, raging parties like you see in all those terrible movies, but I certainly like to have some drinks with friends on weekends. </p></li>
<li><p>What's the drug scene like? Is weed popular amongst students? What about psychedelics? (For the record, I'm pretty into that sort of thing and, for me, they go hand-in-hand with learning about things that interest me. I'm the type who gets kinda annoyed when heavy drinkers refer contemptuously to marijuana as 'drugs')</p></li>
<li><p>About taking classes at other colleges: Is it easy to manage? UPenn offers a huge selection of foreign languages, and I love the idea of being able to study an infrequently taught language (like universities offer) while still having the LAC experience. I guess what I'm trying to say is, is it a pain to move around from school to school several times a week in order to get to your classes? </p></li>
<li><p>Double majoring: Is it doable? Would the workload be too insane? </p></li>
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<p>Long post, I know. Would love some honest advice though. Thanks in advance.</p>

<p>Find the Haverford subforum under the Colleges section. If you do some reading you might get some answers already there.</p>

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