<p>“And this is a school where students get the response, when telling others where they go to school, hear “uh… Harvard?”.”</p>
<p>I would disregard this comment completely. People who don’t know Haverford from Harvard are probably not the kind of people whose opinions matter. I’m not going to deny that Haverford is more selective than Bryn Mawr, but once again the applicant pool is very self selected. A lot of the applicants have higher stats in terms of gpa and SAT scores, but I hardly think that makes the overall student body more intellectually robust. Bryn Mawr is known to be the most academically focused school out of the seven sisters. In academia Bryn Mawr is HIGHLY respected. My uncle attended BMC for grad school and anyone who knows anything about colleges is never failed to be impressed when he tells them he graduated from BMC. </p>
<p>“Penn and Swarthmore have much stronger students than either BM or Haverford, and the students there know it.”
I have to disagree with this. I think the majority of the students within the quaker consortium view all four colleges as peer schools. Students who look down upon bryn mawr and haverford are the ignorant minority.</p>
<p>You have two amazing choices. I think you should just go with your gut on this one, because you can’t really go wrong.</p>