<p>1) HC students CAN take classes at Penn. It's not done too frequently as, given the course selection between BMC and HC to choose from and given the distance, why should they? Who said they couldn't?! </p>
<p>2) Yes, technically there is a Tri-co, but ask any Swat kid or Bi-co kid just how easy it is and you'll be very disappointed if that's what you're assuming. Swat is essentially isolated here.</p>
<p>3) The wall street journal looks also at Law schools and Business schools too and each category isn't weighted 1/3, 1/3 1/3. A college that sends 12 grads to Wharton (not hard) and 1 to Harvard Med (hard) will be ranked more favorably than another school that sends 4 to Wharton and 4 to Harvard Med. So, I wouldn't use that as strong evidence and generalize if you're looking at a particular field such as medicine.</p>
<p>4) I'm sorry if I over-read your comment. That's one of the limits to anonymous internet sites. As you seemed very sure and serious with your belief that Swat is "better" in biomedical, your comments (... even Haverford)juxtaposed around that assertion have to be taken equally too... smiley faces or not. That's why, if you noticed, I explicitly write positive aspects of Swat rather than just assume people understand my intention. Saying something negative and putting a smiley face to it is called "sarcasm".</p>
<p>5) You mentioned "fit" and it's known that Swat attracts a greater # of kids that fit my description than other places given how it advertises itself. If you're talking about FIT (and you brought it up) it's important and reasonable to talk about the kind of kids each school attracts and your comments do fit with a certain % of Swat kids. I didn't say all, but a very noticible contingent. Yes, I've been to parties at Harvard, MIT and Princeton... the kids who choose to go to universities are a little more assertive, confident and the types to thrive in a larger social mix and have more normal social skills. LACs attract other types of students who value other things such as intimacy... and a school that advertises "anywhere else would be an A" or that it's the most "intense" and "intellectual" attracts a certain type of kid.</p>