<p>I won’t address the original question since it was addressed to students, but a 3.7 GPA did not make Phi Beta Kappa (top 15% of the class) in the Class of 2008, so at least 50 or so students had 3.7 or higher GPA.</p>
<p>I know what my daughter would say because I’ve heard her say it. If you are obsessed with GPA and don’t think that first-semester pass/fail will break you of that, then Swarthmore is probably not the right school for you. She says there are two kinds of students who shouldn’t go to Swarthmore: students who really don’t want to study hard and students who live and die by their GPA would fall apart at the seams if they ever got a B.</p>