<p>Did anyone get the e-mail regarding "Ride The Tide To Swat"?</p>
<p>I'm definitely going. A flyer about it came with my acceptance letter. I haven't visited Swat before, so I'm really excited.</p>
<p>I'm conflicted b/c ride the tide is the same day as Dimensions and I really want to go to both so I am trying to schedule an overnight prolly before that week.</p>
<p>What is Dimensions?</p>
<p>I've already called BTI about transportation. :-P</p>
<p>I haven't made up my mind...
I am still waiting from other schools... I am just wondering if I can contact BTI even before I make my admission decision.
I know the trip is "free," but the trip will be held on April 21. By then, wouldn't I have already decided which college to attend?
I am so confused.</p>
<p>You have till May 1 to decide. Admit weekends are supposed to help you. Their main purpose is to "show off" the school to the admited students.</p>
<p>Dimensions is the admitted student weekend for Dartmouth</p>
<p>jblackboy05,</p>
<p>I'm from SoCal and I've been invited to both Dimensions and Ride the Tide to Swat.</p>
<p>My dad's contacted both schools and it seems physically impossible for me to do both. Let me know what you decide to do.</p>
<p>I think I'm just going to do the Tide.</p>
<p>I don't know the dates of either program. However, there are direct flights from Philadelphia to Manchester, NH. Cheapo one-way fares as low as $29 on Southwest. That's how my daughter comes home from Swat usually.</p>
<p>Manchester is the closest airport to Dartmouth, probably no more than an hour away. Swarthmore is really close to the Phila. Airport.</p>
<p>So, regardless of the dates, doing a Swat/Dartmouth swing would be a piece of cake.</p>
<p>so what would you say to the other college, it was really nice visiting but I'm going to fly too dartmouth now?</p>
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<p>Sure. A lot of kids go to several of these back-to-back. Nothin' out of the ordinary for the admissions people at all. They expect it.</p>
<p>Swarthmore's attitude is: Come check us out. We think you'll probably like us. But, if Swarthmore is not for you, that's cool. Timothy Burke, one of Swat's favorite young professors, gave a speech to the "specs" at Ride the Tide last year outlining which of them should chose a different kind of school. </p>
<p>Heck, there are occasional "specs" that Swarthmore students practically BEG to go somewhere else! [HINT: don't walk around talking about your super-high SATs and all the "prestigious" colleges you got into, yadda, yadda. So did everyone else, but they don't brag about it.]</p>
<p>Again, I don't know the dates of the open-house events. But, even if you wanted to do a regular overnight at one place and the official event at the other, the Phila/Manchester deal on Southwest would make it really easy. From the West Coast, you could do a three-legged Southwest deal -- Calif to Phila to Dartmouth to Calif. -- or vice versa.</p>
<p>Swat runs vans to the airport pretty much non-stop during Ride the Tide (it's only about fifteen minutes). Or, you can get directly from the airport terminals to the train station on campus using the train -- changing trains at the UPenn station. I imagine that Dartmouth runs buses to Manchester constantly during their open house.</p>
<p>BTW, Southwest also flies Phila to Providence if anyone is doing a Brown thing. AirTran, US Air, and I think Jet Blue fly Phila - Boston for fairly cheap -- although not $29 cheap. Train is a piece of cake from Phila to NYC or Washington DC. Commuter train from Swat to downtown and then Amtrak either direction about 90 minutes.</p>
<p>well..I want the colleges to pay for this..so...</p>
<p>yeah.</p>
<p>what am i supposed to tell swat? fly me out to philly and i'll take care of the way home?</p>
<p>Sure you can try that. Call the admissions office and work it out. Swat is very flexible in everything. The admissions office is not a huge bureaucracy....and it tries to accomodate people.</p>
<p>There are two posibilities. </p>
<p>You could tell one school to just book you a round trip on these dates (say to Phila) and then tell the other school to book you a round trip (say Phila to Manchester back to Phila).</p>
<p>Or, just get the first school to book you a one way (say to Phila) and tell the second school to book the second two legs (say from Phila to Manchester and back home).</p>
<p>Like I say, you can get from Phila to Manchester for as little as $29 one-way on Southwest.</p>
<p>I've told my dad all this but let's say I fly out from Philly to Manchester on a 1 PM flight on April 22. I'll get to Dartmouth sometime in the evening. Dartmouth's program ends the next day--April 23. My dad's worried that I won't really get anything out of doing this--the kids at the Dartmouth program will already know each other, and I'll have missed the heart of the program.</p>
<p>And I woudn't be able to go to a class b/c there aren't classes on Saturdays.</p>
<p>Feazeatspez, Same conflict with me, but just decided on Dimensions, I think that you are just gonna have to decide or go on an earlier date...DAMN i really wanted to go visit swat, but we all gotta make choices :(</p>
<p>You guys are making in tough on an ol' geezer because I don't know the dates of any of these programs! You're throwing dates at me, but I can't put them in context.</p>
<p>The first day of a pre-frosh program is good, mostly check-in, some orientation, see the campus, eat dinner, activities at night.</p>
<p>The second day is jam packed with stuff to choose from. More activities at night. The third day is everybody leaving in the morning. So arriving at dinner on the second day is kind of worthless.</p>
<p>So if this is the scenario (help me out with the dates!):</p>
<p>Swat Ride the Tide: arrive Wed, Thurs, leave on Friday.
Dimensions: arrive Thurs, Friday, leave on Saturday.</p>
<p>Why don't you fly to Phia on TUESDAY, do a regular overnight on TUES and the first day/night of Ride the Tide on WED.</p>
<p>Then, fly to Manchester first thing Thurs. Morning and do the Dimensions thing?</p>
<p>That way you get a full chance to see both schools. They'll work with ya. As an admitted URM, they'll jump through hoops.</p>
<p>on Thursday, overnight, and then end early PM on Friday. I called the admissions office a couple of weeks ago to check the start/end parameters as there were some fantastic USAir, Southwest, United airfare bargains out of Nashville to Philadelphia and I wanted to nail some tickets down. We haven't yet received the admitted students packet (to be mailed later this month and into April, they said, when I called) alluded to in the February "we've not forgotten" you letter with the t-shirt. We're planning to arrive late afternoon on Wednesday, 20APR.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Bill</p>
<p>Bill, Are y'all going to go straight to Swarthmore on Wednesday and doing a regular overnight before Ride the Tide starts, or will you be playing in Philadelphia til Thursday morning? (There's a special Dali exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, if Dali's your cup of tea.)</p>
<p>I guess I'll drive my daughter up on Thursday morning and am thinking about letting her take Amtrak home on Friday, especially if she can make some arrangments to go with some other kids who live in this area. She's going to have to learn how to do it eventually... I would guess that someone at Swarthmore would point kids in the direction of whatever conveyance would take them to the Amtrak station...</p>
<p>That Dali exhibit is cool but plan to go early. It was CROWDED with a capital C. There are about 400 works of Dali covering his entire life..</p>