<p>I understand that you posted your questions here and not in the Bryn Mawr forum because you didn’t want to get a sugarcoated response from a Bryn Mawr student. Well, I am a Bryn Mawr student but I hope you value my input anyway.</p>
<p>Academically Bryn Mawr and Haverford are pretty much one school. I took 1 class at Haverford in my second semester, 3 in my third semester and 1 in my fourth (along with 2 classes at Penn). Next semester I am planning to take 1 class at Haverford, 1 at Bryn Mawr, and 1 or 2 at Penn. The worst part about taking classes at Haverford? The only negative I can think of is the extra trouble to get key-card access to all the rooms and buildings I need to get into. (It takes some communication between you, your professors and campus security but you will typically have access within a day of requesting it.) </p>
<p>The bus schedules are not an issue during the day. Bryn Mawr classes start on the hour while Haverford classes start on the half-hour. You can, for example, take a 10-11 class at Bryn Mawr, take the bus to Haverford and then take a 11:30-12:30 class at Haverford. Or if your Haverford class does not start until 12:30, you can have lunch at either Bryn Mawr or Haverford before going to class. In the morning and the afternoon there are typically 4 buses from Bryn Mawr to Haverford (and vice versa) every hour. I don’t watch the bus schedule during the day, I just go to the bus stop and wait for the next bus. In the evening there is only one bus an hour though, so I have to be more aware of the schedule.</p>
<p>Swarthmore and Penn are trickier transportation-wise. You have to get to Penn with public transportation. The R-5 station is literally one block away from campus, but the train only runs once an hour. The R-100 runs every 20 minutes but the R-100 station is more than a mile away. Bryn Mawr has a van to Swarthmore, but the van only runs once every 90 minutes which makes scheduling very tricky. I have heard that less than 70 students take a class at Swarthmore per year.</p>
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In my experience Haverford professors do pay attention to cross-registration concerns. I took a Piano class at Haverford, for example, and the professor scheduled private lessons for Bryn Mawr students so that they would fit nicely around the Blue Bus schedule (e.g. start 5 minutes after the bus gets to campus). In another class the professor decided to schedule a few extra class sessions at night in the last week of classes because he wanted to make time for everyone to present their course projects. He was just as sensitive to my scheduling issues as to the conflicts of the Haverford students in the class.</p>
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It depends. Haverford girls do get bitter when an entire bus load of Bryn Mawr students shows up to their party. But otherwise you can spend time at Haverford and be friends with Haverford students just like any Haverford student. And honestly, there is not that much competition. Most Bryn Mawr students do not spend much social time at Haverford. (Many are content at Bryn Mawr, some are too shy to go off-campus, some go to Swarthmore or Penn or Drexel, etc.)</p>
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You can be friends with Haverford guys and date Haverford guys, but you will have to go to Haverford and initiate the contact. No Haverford student comes to Bryn Mawr looking for a party or social contacts. That being said, if you are not into parties, Bryn Mawr is about the best place in the world for you to be 
What I really like about life at Bryn Mawr is that the dorms are quiet at night, even on weekends. Students who want to party go off-campus. The people who stay on campus might watch a movie or have tea at Uncommon Grounds or finish a paper or just catch up on sleep, but it is quiet enough to go to bed at 11 if you so desire. I heard that that is not true at most other colleges.</p>