DARTMOUTH/Duke/Swarthmore/Midd

Kalidescope
Sun, 03 Apr 2005 09:45:38 +0000

As someone who was accepted to Dartmouth and Swarthmore (along with a few other competitive schools) I can tell you that for me it came down to how big of a college experience I wanted to have.

I applied to HY_S and was accepted to all three. I also applied and was accepted to Swarthmore and Dartmouth. I think Swarthmore is a great school, that’s why I applied. In my pecking order, I had Yale and Swarthmore in a tie, if I would only have been accepted to those two, I’m not sure what I would have done-- probably Yale but it would have been tough.

The thing is, I was also accepted to dartmouth and to me it stands above all the rest for personal and objective reasons and not just because Dartmouth is much more prestigious.

I hope to have the best of both worlds, Dartmouth undergrad and Harvard (or another great grad school) for Grad-school. To me, this would be living it up!

As to Dartmouth v Swarthmore, like a number of people have said Dartmouth will give the most well-rounded opportunities and college life. Unless you self-identify as a ‘Nerd’ or don’t care if you are surrounded by a whole lot of ‘house-kept’ people, you gotta go to dartmouth if you can.

Very few people who do not have some allegiance to swat would say otherwise. Unless there is a specific personal reason (nerd, uber-liberal, etc) you should go to Swat, don’t sell yourself short, leap at dartmouth.