<p>All three are excellent schools and how your college career would go at any of them would be determined by things you can’t possibly consider or even know, now.</p>
<p>Having said that, there is no stronger undergrad education in the United States than Swarthmore, if you value a highly interactive learning environment where students and faculty teach each other. There’s nowhere that focuses more intensely on the undergrad experience. It is known for being what you say you are looking for. The new President may be just blowing smoke, but she says that she has never seen anything like the enthusiasm for learning at the other schools where she has been: Emory, Yale Divinity School, Colgate. I went to Wiliams, which is a pretty darn good school academically, and I’ve never seen anything like it.</p>
<p>It also has by far the largest per student endowment. Three times larger than Brown’s. Four times larger than Wesleyan’s. Financial strength is particularly important in this economic climate as it dictates how severe the budget cutting will be over the next five years.</p>