Is Swarthmore engineering right for me?

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Ah yes, the oft quoted UC Berkeley data. Is there any other source, on the entire internet that can be cited?

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Probably not, because such data are normally confidential. The Berkeley data only became publicly available because of a lawsuit. </p>

<p>The Wall Street Journal's 2003 [url=<a href="http://wsjclassroom.com/pdfs/wsj_college_092503.pdf%5Dranking%5B/url"&gt;http://wsjclassroom.com/pdfs/wsj_college_092503.pdf]ranking[/url&lt;/a&gt;] of undergraduate "feeders" to top business, law, and medical schools suggests that Swarthmore grads fare unusually well when it comes to professional school admission. I suspect that Swat would rank even higher in an evaluation of PhD programs.</p>

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<p>"IE: One 10 year old set of data means so, so little."</p>

<p>Data like this change very little over even decades, because the selectivity of undergraduate admissions is pretty constant over time (for most schools). Anyways, those are my opinions and reasons - since I'm not in any way affiliated with Swarthmore, I don't really feel compelled to debate the point. ;)</p>

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As for law, Swarthmore is excellent in getting people into law school, despite GPA deflation. For law school application, swarthmore's GPA is more favorably compensated for "deflation" than almost every other school, including MIT, etc.

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It's my understanding that law school applications are normally processed through LSDAS (the Law School Data Assembly Service). LSDAS not only provides information about the applicant, but also about the applicant's school, including the general distribution of GPAs vs. LSAT scores. The law schools are not clueless regarding the inflation or deflation of undergraduate grades.</p>

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<p>In which case, it doesn't matter what school you go to.</p>

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<p>this seems to be a very controversial topic...please do continue the debate</p>

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<p>No, but harvey mudd probably is.</p>