<p>Rutgers–why the Swarthmore love? Not that I mind–DS is going this fall. Just curious–What is it that you particularly admire about Swat?</p>
<p>Okay,
pnb2002 you obviously are not Swathmore Pomona WIlliams caliber either for not catching that me and Rutgers are the same people. I just got banned on another name and came back on here on another(probably get banned from this too). </p>
<p>First of all, I truly do beleive Swarthmore is the best of the bunch. But of course they are all as good as eachother(maybe they are not). I just think Swat tends to be the best. On forums I am barbaric, ignorant, and dumb. And rightfully so since it’s a forum. I mean how much more crazy is the way I act then these dumb people on here that tell you if you go to Rutgers your life will probably suck? I am at Rutgers and have some great oppurtunities line up for after school. </p>
<p>That being said, most of my posts are jokes. DUNNLINLA wins my reward for being the coolest person on this board for his gramatical corrections. Could I have went to Swat? Maybe, I was wait listed a year back but had a leg problem that forced me to stay very close to home. I never tried to get off the wait list.</p>
<p>Edincott,
I dont know if DS is daughter or son but either way, your child will love Swarthmore. Although there is the bad talk such as no free-time, that is really a bunch of lies. They have great academics, great alumni, a great campus, great students, and amazing faculty. How could I not admire a school like Swat?</p>
<p>I’m very sorry for your loss.</p>
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<pre><code>twat ~_~
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<p>KWU,
Is that regarded to me? If so, in what sense? lol i can’t read sarcasim on forums.</p>
<p>And Sigurros if you mean Vagina by twat, right on dude! I have a huge vagina on my forehead, it’s true. If you don’t mean that, then what do you mean? lol</p>
<p>Swarthmore gives AP credit.</p>
<p>COMPLETELY biased </p>
<ol>
<li>amherst</li>
<li>swarthmore</li>
<li>williams</li>
<li>middlebury</li>
<li>pomona</li>
<li>grinnell</li>
<li>bowdoin</li>
<li>oberlin</li>
<li>bates</li>
<li>harvey mudd</li>
</ol>
<p>I don’t want to see this topic die.</p>
<p>You can also do graduate work at Pomona, CMC, as they share a campus with several graduate institutions. It is actually quite easy to cross-enroll.</p>
<p>If someone wants to attend an LAC while still having graduate level and university resources, SHE should go to Barnard. That’s what did it for me since I can technically enter as a sophomore. However, I probably won’t use many of my AP classes becuase one of the fundamentals of LACS is the well-rounded education</p>
<p>P.S. Why is Barnard lacking in these rankings? It doesn’t bother me, I’m just not sure if there’s a reason. I know it doesn’t do as well as it should in the USNWR rankings becuase it doesn’t participate or w/e</p>
<p>Yeah, I’ve always wondered why Barnard is #30 on the USNWR rankings when it’s clearly a peer school of Wellesley (#3 or #4, usually).</p>
<p>HahahaI’mback, I went to the University of Chicago. Whatever that means to you, I don’t care… If you want to act dumb, barbaric, and ignorant simply because of the anonymous nature of the forum, indulge yourself. I would personally never post anything I wouldn’t say to another person face-to-face… Also, there are lots of high school kids who take these forums seriously… So, yeah, I won’t joke around.</p>
<p><quote>
A variant on Lucky Starchild’s ranking:</quote></p>
<p>(Co-ed only)</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Swarthmore, Williams, Amherst</p></li>
<li><p>Pomona, Carleton, Middlebury</p></li>
<li><p>Bowdoin, Haverford, Reed, Grinnell, Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Davidson</p></li>
<li><p>Vassar, Oberlin, Wesleyan</p></li>
<li><p>Colgate, Hamilton, Colby, Bates, Macalaster, Kenyon</p></li>
</ol>
<p>I can’t believe I did this. I hate these ranking exercises!!
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<p>Yeesh, Wesleyan (and possibly Vassar too) should definitely be in the group with Haverford and Bowdoin, which I think are two schools which are very commonly viewed as similar to Wesleyan in selectivity/prestige, if not in the group with Carleton and Middlebury, which Wesleyan is also grouped with often.</p>
<p>I’d also move Davidson down and Macalester up, but that’s purely a personal preference. </p>
<p>Anyway–
I’ve also been curious about Barnard’s rankings. Is it getting screwed because it’s tied to Columbia so the stats that US News collects from it are messed up by that, somehow?</p>
<p>Whoever ranked Colgate below Swarthmore needs serious help…</p>
<p>swarthmore is light years ahead of colgate. going off of the ranking posted above, carleton should be moved down one tier and bowdoin and CMC should be raised a tier.</p>
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<p>It depends what you’re going by. Swarthmore, on average, has smarter students but from what I have seen has more of a nerdy, less fun environment. It attracts the kind of students that are 4x more inclined to get a PhD but has a lower percentage go work in business in any capacity. </p>
<p>I certainly wouldn’t have gone to Swarthmore over Colgate. This isn’t a one size fits all process.</p>
<p>you’re right i would agree with that. i shouldn’t have said “light years.”</p>
<p>These rankings are purely subjective and biased. It’s silly to try to criticize or correct others’ choices, even if they don’t jive with the US News model.</p>
<p>I would love to hear some of the rankers’ reasoning, though.</p>
<p>^Same here. </p>
<p>I also think the women’s colleges need some love. All of the remaining seven sisters are top LAC’s. I don’t know why they’re being excluded.</p>
<p>As a male, I know extremely little about most women’s colleges having never researched them at all (obviously) during my own college search. That may be part of the reason.</p>