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<p>I wonder if statistics exist for this. I always thought people who majored in the likes of English, economics, or philosophy had it easy. Of the people I knew who had very high GPAs, a couple were legitimately very smart, but the rest were just majoring in cakewalking as far as I could tell.</p>
<p>Back to the OP: You will have to work harder to get the same grades at Swarthmore as you would at an easier place like Haverford, and, as has been mentioned already in this thread, medical school admissions officers aren’t going to care about a name like Swarthmore when considering you against someone with a higher GPA from some other place. If I may be idealistic for a moment, though, it’s possible that, if you go to Swarthmore and work very hard to get a high GPA, that you’ll end up being a better doctor for it on down the road and will face fewer malpractice suits on account of it. If that’s not something you even remotely care about, then I suggest Cornell or Haverford.</p>
<p>As to the dominant personality type, I’m going to go with nerd.</p>