Chances and a few questions...

antisthenes
Fri, 10 Dec 2004 01:53:27 +0000

Hey,

Thanks a lot for your reply! It means a lot.

I want to apply Winter ED because, frankly, Swarthmore is the only school on my list that I feel passionate about. I haven’t known about it for very long, but the only school that comes close is maybe Brown.

I don’t want a hold-your-hand type place. Just the opposite: the more independence I have, the better I do and the more I get out of it. I couldn’t find information on this on the site: how does the curriculum work? Is there a Core? I’m very humanities-oriented, so the fewer science/math courses I can get away with, the better.

Also, how much do you think my sample of academic work can help me? I’m submitting a chunk of a 20-page research paper on the role of decentralization in postmodern theory. I’m submitting the part that analyzes Derrida and Barthes. I figure that might give them a somewhat good opinion of me?