<p>OH MY GOD! I just found out that you have to pass a swimming test to graduate. Is this true???!!! Goddammit I can't swim! humiliation!</p>
<p>LOL just learn. It’s not that bad. XD</p>
<p>lol i feel like that’s actually a requirement for all ivies</p>
<p>you could also take a swimming class to pass the requirement or you can learn now.</p>
<p>If you don’t bother learning to swim, you deserve to drown. Is that too mean?</p>
<p>seas doesnt have to i heard</p>
<p>^ Yeah, because we build boats instead.</p>
<p>That’s actually a requirement for only two ivies: Dartmouth and Columbia… basically, if you get in, start practicing ;)</p>
<p>MIT also requires you take a swim test. </p>
<p>But SEAS doesn’t have to :)</p>
<p>I learned to swim because of the requirement. It’s a good thing.</p>
<p>Is this for serious?</p>
<p>Cornell also requires it. 
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<p>I can’t swim, too!—and I’m from Hawaii. :P</p>
<p>so let’s say nyc is under siege and the only way to escape is to swim across to new jersey. now columbia doesn’t want to be responsible for the death of thousands of brilliant minds, so in order to qualify as a columbia graduate, you need to swim (e.g. not die when nyc gets attacked by who knows).</p>
<p>im not kidding, thats the rationale</p>
<p>no, that’s not the rationale. That particular purpose is silly.</p>
<p>The rationale is that if you’ve gone through college and learned all this stuff, and your education hasn’t even taught you how to save your life, then the university has really failed you. Literary analysis and multivariable calculus be damned. If they can’t even bother to teach you how to save your life, what’s the purpose of your education? (I believe it roots back in old Talmudic wisdom)</p>