<p>Hi everyone, I was recently accepted into Haverford, and I'm having a tough time deciding between it and Cornell University (which I also got accepted to). I really like Haverford because it's a liberal arts college. I like the location, I like the Honor Code, I like how there are fewer people than on most college campuses. However, I have some doubts and I was wondering if any current students could answer my questions:</p>
<p>1) How is Haverford for English? I know that Haverford is known for the sciences, but what about the humanities (particularly English/writing)? Will I get a excellent education here or would I be better off at Cornell?</p>
<p>2) This is a bit early, but I plan to attend grad school, and perhaps obtain a Ph.D. in English. I know that Haverford is basically unknown among the general population, but does it have a reputation among grad schools? Cornell obviously has the advantage here, but I just want some reassurance that English departments in grad schools won't look at my (prospective) Haverford degree and think, "Hmm... never heard of that college before." Is my perception incorrect? </p>
<p>Thank you very much & please help me out!</p>
<p>amazing reputation among grad schools. research some more and you will be pleased! i think the haverford website has lots of info on grad school success, percentages, and PhD numbers among alums.</p>
<p>Haverford has a terrific English department. The faculty is great, including a member of the Pulitzer jury. It’s also among the most popular departments. Alumni have gone on to all the top grad schools in recent years, e.g., Yale, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Duke, Virginia, etc.</p>
<p>The Humanities Center is a great resource as well.</p>
<p>In academic circles, HC is very well known. The president of Cornell from 1995-2005 was an HC alum, btw. The current president of Harvard graduated from BMC. The former head of the National Endowment for the Humanities about 5-10 years ago graduated from BMC; in the last decade the former head of the influential Iowa Writer’s Workshop was an alum in addition to both chief editors of the LA Times and the NY Times ect…</p>
<p>I write a lot about HC’s sciences on CC because, yes, they happen to be phenomenal but also, as a science grad, I am most familiar with these departments and the significance of the sources/evidence I cite to make my case. Sorry if you interpreted my lack of discussion with other fields as a sign of something else. Please don’t get the impression that other disciplines are weak because they are not.</p>
<p>HC’s faculty in general is inter-changeable with top universities. I checked out some of the English department’s faculty profiles. As one example, one professor I read about graduated summa from Yale where he also got his PhD and taught there for a few years garnering teaching awards before coming to HC. Other professors in non-science departments are Rhodes scholars, Fulbright and Guggenheim winners, ect. A professor I had in the religion department in the 1990s left HC when asked by his alma mater (University of Chicago) to head their Religion department. In the 1980s, there was another professor in the department of religion who left HC to head Harvard’s Divinity school. That’s seriously very impressive when you think about it. </p>
<p>[Divinity</a> School Chooses Haverford Prof as Dean | News | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1986/1/6/divinity-school-chooses-haverford-prof-as/]Divinity”>Divinity School Chooses Haverford Prof as Dean | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>
<p>Like I wrote above, HC’s faculty can be inter-changeable with top universities. Not only are professors top scholars and researchers, but they choose to be at a LAC/HC because teaching is important to them.</p>
<p>American Political Science Association Announces 2011 Awards</p>
<p>Book Awards</p>
<p>Cristina Beltran (Haverford College) will receive the Ralph J. Bunche Award for The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity (Oxford University Press). The Bunche Award recognizes the best scholarly work in political science published in the previous calendar year that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism.</p>
<p>Sean Farhang (University of California, Berkeley) will receive the Gladys M. Kammerer Award for The Litigation State: Public Regulation and Private Lawsuits in the U.S. (Princeton University Press). The Kammerer Award recognizes the best political science publication in the field of U.S. national policy published in the previous calendar year.</p>
<p>Torben Iversen (Harvard University) and Frances Rosenbluth (Yale University) will receive the Victoria Schuck Award for Women, Work & Politics: The Political Economy of Gender Inequality (Yale University Press). The Schuck Award recognizes the best book published in the previous calendar year on women and politics. </p>
<p>Robert D. Putnam (Harvard University) and David E. Campbell (University of Notre Dame) will receive the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us (Simon and Schuster). The Wilson Award recognizes the best book published in the U.S. during the previous calendar year on government, politics, or international affairs. The award is supported by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.</p>
<p>[American</a> Political Science Association Announces 2011 Awards – WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --](<a href=“http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/american-political-science-association-announces-2011-awards-127605733.html]American”>American Political Science Association Announces 2011 Awards)</p>