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Old 04-06-2008, 12:56 AM   #1
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Bryn Mawr vs Scripps

Can you please help me decide between the two. Strength of subject and grad school placements are the criteria and intend to take up economics with politics or may be philosophy.
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Old 04-06-2008, 10:42 AM   #2
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I can't tell you much in the way of the criteria you mentioned, but some major differences are size (Scripps is significantly smaller) and the consortium (they have very different feels).
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Old 04-06-2008, 11:08 AM   #3
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We live local to Scripps and one reason my D applied to Bryn Mawr is because it seems so similar to Scripps in so many ways. She didn't want to go to school near home, so she applied to Bryn Mawr. I think this choice would depend more on fit for the two campuses and where you want to spend four years. They are on opposite coasts, after all. If you haven't visited them both do so. Your answer should become clear. As far as grad schools, etc. I think both have good results with that. Both have consortium's, but Scripps has four other colleges within walking distance so the class possibilities may be bigger. But, you can only take so many classes and that may not be important.
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Old 04-06-2008, 11:50 AM   #4
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Do you know what area in economics you are interested in? Bryn Mawr's economics department focuses mainly on "public" economics - they offer courses like Public Finance, Taming the Modern Corporation and Environmental Economics. We have a strong philosophy department but some philosophy majors complain that the department focuses solely on modern Western philosophy - we only have intro courses in ancient philosophy and no courses at all in e.g. Asian philosophy.

Majors in both subjects benefit from the cross-registration program with Haverford. Haverford's economics department focuses more on the corporate aspect of economics (corporate finance, accounting etc) and their philosophy department offers courses in non-Western philosophy. Haverford is just a mile away and the regular shuttle service makes it easy to take classes there.
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Old 04-08-2008, 09:26 AM   #5
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Apparently, Bryn Mawr ranks very high on PhD productivity - see Reed College website (REED COLLEGE FEMALE PHD PRODUCTIVITY)
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Old 04-21-2008, 02:33 AM   #6
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i want to do a PPE major...with eco as the major nd the other 2 as minor's...
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