<p>pub night is $4 for everyone other than seniors</p>
<p>there are a few parties throughout the year that ask for money up front (usually hosted by athletic groups)</p>
<p>i'm not indian and i think the indian bar is pretty bad lol. then again, i'm not a fan of sharples as a whole. i usually eat at tarble for all my meals.</p>
<p>unless you plan on visiting philly often, you won't need much money on campus</p>
<p>you seem like a good fit for swat, but carleton is a great school too. good luck</p>
<p>I'd have to agree with nngmm...I applied to Dartmouth for similar reasons that you (treesnogger) applied to Carleton: Dartmouth kids seemed capable of sustaining that delicate balance of work and play without any apparent effort. They maintained an understated finesse, both academically and socially, and seemed to possess an ungodly amount of confidence without uttering a single word - they just "glowed," so to speak. </p>
<p>Well, I was unceremoniously rejected at Dartmouth but accepted to Swarthmore, which all along has been my "close 2nd" choice. Having had time to reflect on everything, it's easy to see why two school with fairly similar stats issued contradictory verdicts: Swat is a perfect match. For better or worse, Dartmouth isn't. Perhaps you're a perfect match for Carleton - I really don't know - but if it's a choice between a student culture you'd like to identify with and one that seems like a reflection of who you really are, I'd choose the latter. This makes sense now, even though it didn't at the time.</p>
<p>The more I learn about the obsessively studious, politically passionate, gregariously quircky culture that exists at Swarthmore, the more I realize that everything turned out for the best!</p>
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A.E., like Mof 3S said, the FA remains the same in amount, but all the loans are replaced with grants. I guess it is how Swarthmore prefers to spend their money (as opposed to spending it on "proximity cards", etc.)
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Some places have replaced loans with grants and have proximity cards. That said, I will be interested to see how the FA statistics shake out after five years or a decade of this new policy.</p>
<p>electicool: you are SO rationalizing. if you were accepted to dartmouth, you would have been there in a heartbeat. treesnogger got into both swat and carleton and has a choice. you didn't. "The more I learn about the obsessively studious, politically passionate, gregariously quircky culture that exists at Swarthmore, the more I realize that everything turned out for the best!" give me a break!</p>
<p>well, i'd agree with the first part: i am trying to approach this issue rationally. as for the second part, you're right to an extent - or at least i see where you're coming from. yes, i certainly would have attended dartmouth had i been accepted. no question about it. but, in hindsight, it could have been a mistake - a pretty big one at that. i feel incredibly honored and lucky to have the choices that i do, and by no means did i intend to insinuate that swarthmore is inferior to dartmouth - it isn't. but culturally, the two schools are quite different. i stand by what i said earlier, but i apologize if it came across as sulky. that wasn't the intent.</p>
<p>i wish everyone the best of luck with their decisions! and again, i do hope to see all of you next year!</p>
<p>BS. Lots of students choose Swarthmore over Dartmouth. It's a better undergraduate college in virtually every respect...unless you like a massive fraternity and drinking scene.</p>
<p>electriccool, please read this: "Dartmouth kids seemed capable of sustaining that delicate balance of work and play without any apparent effort. They maintained an understated finesse, both academically and socially, and seemed to possess an ungodly amount of confidence without uttering a single word - they just "glowed," so to speak."</p>
<p>you may want to know that swatties glow too, we're not that far from 3 mile island. we, at swat don't feel that an "ungodly amount of confidence w/o uttering a single word" a particularly good trait. i can sum up your nine words with one: arrogance. see, all that reading taught me how to cut through all the verbal clutter. </p>
<p>i know guys from dartmouth and swatties, at the bottom of our game, eat those clowns alive intellectually. socially, well, they may hold their beer better, but not by much. next year, if i invite a couple of idiots that i went to high school with who are attending dartmouth and we happen to walk past, you're not going to embarass me by kneeling or bowing to them are you?</p>
<p>treesnogger: a comment on your last posting. that third paragraph wasn't a ramble, having to read it makes waterboarding seem like a friday night drinking game. i hope you're not seriously looking forward to playing misery poker here because i haven't met anyone who's ever started to play and wasn't alone after three seconds. i only whine on this board, you think anyone at swat actually has the time or inclination to listen to my complaints? i think my roomate would smother me in my sleep...and then some would want to name a national holiday for him. oh wow, only three and a half more hours till bedtime. toodles.</p>
<p>Wow. I was definitely mostly kidding. It's people with the stomachs to have cause for misery poker I seek, more than the actual conversations. I figure most Swatties have far more interesting things to talk about.</p>
<p>Though I have to say I'd prefer finding a few who engage one another in misery poker to a lot who come on random college information boards and attempt to quash the spirits of prospies/future classmates... Come on, now. Isn't this supposed to be about constructive advice? If electricool is rationalizing it's not remotely unreasonable, and you mostly seem to agree. And you have no obligation to read my ramblings! I started this thread, and I really appreciate your comments, but if their length or spirit irritates you, why waste your time, when you have precious little?</p>