<p>A choice I'm trying to make.</p>
<p>Which one is looked upon more favorably for graduate school admissions?</p>
<p>I've already considered many other things, but that one I'm currently drawing a blank about. Other comparisons are good too to help me decide.
Those are my top two right now, but I'm also considering Amherst, Georgetown, and WashU.</p>
<p>Help me decide folks!</p>
<p>Thanks too.</p>
<p>swat has stellar grad school placement rates, plus a very personal education
upenn also looks very good for grad school
i too have this choice, and swat's higher on my list</p>
<p>Keep in mind that Penn's grad school replacement rates are artificially depressed because a large portion of the population has no intention of doing grad school, instead going straight into the workforce (wharton, nursing...).</p>
<p>Hey, more Penn undergrads win Rhodes/Marshall scholarships than Swarthmore....smart kids be here.</p>
<p>An education is no more personal than you make it. I'm in a big research university, but I still have personal relationships with my professors. I even got crunked with them in Seoul.</p>
<p>Swat may hand you the personal education. Penn makes you work for it...may as well get used to working for things, no?</p>
<p>Penn's alumni network is also quite huge and awesome.</p>
<p>Swat would be the way to go, if smaller size, research opportunities and close-knit feel is waht you want.</p>
<p>i say swat for the same reasons as IsleBoy said.</p>
<p>but you know, swat and penn students can take classes at each other's schools. so that's always an option.</p>
<p>hey johnnyk, you korean? or did you just visit korea? i'm in seoul now. hi -- <em>waves</em></p>
<p>Theses are suh different schools that it's time for some introspection. Who are you and what do you really enjoy? Swat is small, intiimate, intellectual. You will know everyone and everyone will know your business. It's like living in a very small town. Penn is far bigger, less personal, bigger classes, always new people to meet.................</p>
<p>Both are looked on favorably; you will probably have to work harder to get the same gpa at Swarthmore than Penn. They are totally different schools though with little in common except both are very prestigous and have the same weather...that's it. Penn is large, in a city, has a pre-professional bent, many students interested in financially rewarding careers, fairly conservative student body, more of a party place than Swat; Swat quirky and intellectual, pc, left wing, activist student body, known to produce academicians, small, intimate, safe, beautiful, diverse, small classes, honors program, incredible financial aid. Your focus should not be on the grad school piece.</p>
<p>Hi m_c!</p>
<p>I lived and worked in Seoul for 2 summers. As a white American, I had quite the interesting time..</p>
<p>Penn has a very large contingent of un-PC folk (to the benefit of free speech and thought), center-left (i.e. read Nye instead of Chomsky or other nutbags), and extraordinarily diverse. Penn has the most foreign students in the Ivy League (#2 by percentage). Penn's classes are small once you get past the low-level lectures. I've had a class with 6 people.</p>