@Chembiodad / @katliamom - I’ve typed enough on this discussion about Swarthmore, so I was going to just let it go…but…
The document above is a 10 year old link (still on Swat’s site…they are really bad at website maintenance) that basically says “over the 10 years ended 2005 Swat produced the 4th highest percentage of PhD’s”. The past couple of years we’ve slipped a bit, and this is how we get back to it.
As noted by the author (a Swat/Princeton grad), he’s confident he was better prepared than most of his PhD peers.
Reed keeps details on PhD’s…here’s their link: https://www.reed.edu/ir/phd.html
If you click on the historical button, you’ll see Swarthmore is a top 5 producer of PhD’s over the past 40 years regardless of timeframe. Math may not be as prolific as other majors (I didn’t look / investigate), but to suggest someone at Swarthmore would struggle for acceptance into elite programs doesn’t align with 4 decades of fact.
As a group, the LAC’s do extremely well in PhD productivity.